On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalm...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Stéphane Corlosquet > <scorlosq...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Starting from a basic markup like this: > > [[[ > > This book has been authored by <a href="http://smith.org/john">John > > Smith</a>. > > ]]] > > > > I would like to markup both the textContent of the link ("John Smith") > and > > the url from the href attribute. > > > > In RDFa this is done by adding a couple of attributes to the a element. > It > > would read like this: > > [[[ > > This book has been authored by <a property="name" rel="url" href=" > > http://smith.org/john">John Smith</a>. > > ]]] > > > > Is there any way to do the same in microdata without adding a new HTML > > element to the markup? > > No, Microdata purposely keeps its data model simple by expressing > property names through a single attribute. Since having @itemprop on > an <a> always refers to the @href of the element, you must nest an > additional element, such as a <span>, into your markup to carry the > property that refers to the text content. > Thanks for clarifying this, Tab. Steph. > > ~TJ >