microdata

A proposed update to the W3C microdata specification.

This work aims to bring the specification in line with deployed implementations and publish it as a W3C Recommendation.

Substantive changes are documented in the specification, major technical changes include:

In the current editors' draft:

• Clarify that microdata does not guarantee ordering of properties
• Remove the conversion to JSON-LD

In the 10 October Working Draft:

• Add a normative algorithm to convert microdata to RDFa
• Add a normative algorithm to convert microdata to JSON-LD

Changes in previous Working Drafts include:

• Remove the special unimplemented Drag-and-Drop functionality
• Use itemtype as a vocabulary identifier.
• Add a global content attribute as a mechanism to explicitly define property values
• Allow data, meter and time elements to use their text content as a value.
• Allow itemid more liberally.
• Allow for the use of microdata in languages other than HTML
• Remove the Microdata DOM API

Participating in the work

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