Github user escowles commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/jena/pull/102#issuecomment-159313668
I think that the escaping is only needed for the localname -- the namespace
URI will usually contain characters (`.-/#`) that would be improperly escaped
by escape_PN_LOCAL_ESC().
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