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Microdata

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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 26 June Working Draft

  • Remove special 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.

In the First Public Working Draft

  • Remove the Microdata DOM API