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Microdata

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