On 2/21/2012 8:47 AM, Richard Light wrote: > > > This seems to be quite a common error: I have tripped over three or > four dbpedia URLs containing ampersands in the course of the morning. > Unfortunately they b****r up any resource which mentions them, as well > as their "home page". Thus I can't access the resource describing > lions because it contains a reference to: > > http://dbpedia.org/resource/List_of_Dungeons_&_Dragons_3.5_edition_monsters > (!) > My first impression was disappointment that I can't find how many hit dice that monsters like this have:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_monster (Maybe somebody just has to RDFize the monster database from Nethack) The amperstands, of course, can be blamed on Wikipedia, which uses them extensively, and generations of web browsers which have been tolerant of broken HTML. Yep, you can write <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/List_of_Dungeons_&_Dragons_3.5_edition_monsters";>...</a> and have it work almost the way that you want. In general it's part of the problem that URL (URI) encoding is screwy in DBpedia, the problems don't seem to be completely understood (it seems like there is more than one "standard" to conform to) and nobody is interested in doing anything about it. If you can wait a month or so a RDF product will be become available that will will be broadly similar to DBpedia in scope but will be lacking these problems and most of the other problems too. (Although it won't have all of those delicious "List of" pages) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Dbpedia-discussion mailing list Dbpedia-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion
