Re: Nested Items in <HEAD> Element

Evan,

Why not use <meta> and <link> elements in the <body>, within <div>s that provide you with whatever structure you need? Why do you want to put the <link> and <meta> elements within <head>?

BTW, I think that this is the same as bug 14112 [1] which Hixie closed for lack of information. If you have a good use case then it might be worth reopening that bug or raising a new one.

Cheers,

Jeni

[1] https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=14112

On 21 Dec 2011, at 20:06, Sandhaus, Evan wrote:

> I am currently advising a number of teams on the implementation of Schema.org markup and I've encountered an issue with nested metadata in the <HEAD> element.
> 
> Suppose you have a 'NewsArticle' document to which you have added an 'itemscope' to the <HTML> element.  Lets further suppose that you want to add some non-visible metadata to the <head> element, say the word count.  To do this you'd code up something like:
> 
> <html itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/NewsArticle">
> <head>
> 	<meta itemprop="wordCount" content="1138"/>
> 	...
> 
> So far so good, but now suppose we want to add another bit of non-visible metadata to the <head>, but this time we want to add a 'Person' object.  
> 
> This is where the problem comes in.  Inserting a 'Person' object requires that we nest tags and  it isn't legal in HTML to nest <meta> tags.   Only a  few tags are legal in the scope of <HEAD>.   These tags are <TITLE>, <BASE>, <LINK>, <META>, and <STYLE>.  The problem with this is that none of these tags are permitted to have child tags and you can't express that a 'http://schema.org/NewsItem' object is 'about' a 'http://schema.org/Person' without nesting tags.    In HTML 4 but not HTML 5 the <OBJECT> element is legal in the <HEAD>.    
> 
> So what can I do?  Is there any valid HTML 5 way to express the following (where nestable is the hypothetical name of an element that doesn't make this illegal )?
> 
> 
> <html itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/NewsArticle">
> <head>
> 	<meta itemprop="wordCount" content="1138"/>
> 	<nestable itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">
> 		<meta itemprop="name" content="Evan Sandhaus"/>
> 	</nestable>
>        ....
> </head>
> 	...
> </html>
> 
> If it is not possible to do this, how would you suggest I proceed?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> ~Evan

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Jeni Tennison
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Received on Wednesday, 21 December 2011 20:58:09 UTC