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+From alex@floop.org.uk Tue, 11 Jun 2013 22:05:32 +0100
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+From: Alex Tucker <alex@floop.org.uk>
+To: stardog@clarkparsia.com
+Subject: Namespace bug
+Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 22:05:32 +0100
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+Chaps,
+
+I came across a pesky bug when attempting to load an RDF dump from a Semantic 
+MediaWiki today.  The wiki has some awful URL redirection going on which 
+results in URLs with query parameters, and therefore the equals character (=) 
+in them being used in namespace declarations.  This tickles what looks to be 
+an assumption in your com.clarkparsia.stardog.metadata.TextIO NamespaceIO 
+class that namespace URIs won't contain said character.
+
+Here's a minimal bit of RDF:
+
+<RDF xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
+     xmlns:eq="http://www.example.com/2013/06/=bug#">
+  <eq:Bug about="#this"/>
+</RDF>
+
+which when loaded into a fresh Stardog DB causes any queries or attempts to 
+list namespaces to fail with "Not a valid prefix definition: 
+eq=http://www.example.com/2013/06/=bug#"
+
+Cheers,
+Alex.
+
+
diff --git a/fixes/namespace-with-equals-bug/README b/fixes/namespace-with-equals-bug/README
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+Compiled a replacement method for NamespaceIO._read() based on:
+
+      int pos = theValue.indexOf('=');
+      if (pos == -1) {
+        throw new IllegalArgumentException("Not a valid prefix definition: " + theValue);
+      }
+      return Values.namespace(theValue.substring(0, pos), theValue.substring(pos+1));
+
+Edited bytecode of existing c.c.s.metadata.TextIO$NamespaceIO class using Java Bytecode Editor.
+Resulting class file here, TextIO$NamespaceIO.class, needs copying into stardog-a.b.c.jar
+
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