Microdata (HTML): Difference between revisions

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The following HTML5 markup may be found on a typical “About” page containing information about a person:

<sourcesyntaxhighlight lang=html5>

<section> Hello, my name is John Doe, I am a graduate research assistant at

the University of Dreams.

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You can visit my homepage at <a href="http://www.JohnnyD.com">www.JohnnyD.com</a>.

I live at 1234 Peach Drive, Warner Robins, Georgia.</section>

</syntaxhighlight>

</source>

Here is the same markup with added [[Schema.org]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://schema.org/docs/documents.html |title=Documentation |publisher=Schema.org |date= |accessdate=2016-06-30}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://schema.org/docs/full.html |title=Type Hierarchy |publisher=Schema.org |date= |accessdate=2016-06-30}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://schema.rdfs.org/all.ttl |title=Schema.org Turtle RDFS Schema |access-date=2013-05-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140921103224/http://schema.rdfs.org/all.ttl |archive-date=2014-09-21 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Microdata:

<sourcesyntaxhighlight lang=html5>

<section itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">

Hello, my name is

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</section>

</section>

</syntaxhighlight>

</source>

As the above example shows, Microdata items can be nested. In this case, an item of type http://schema.org/PostalAddress is nested inside an item of type http://schema.org/Person.