Re: Syntax for itemprop breadcrumb

On 19 December 2011 18:00, Aaron Bradley <aaranged@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thanks everyone for weighing in on this (and sorry for the double post - a blank message seems to have been delivered rather than this one).
[...]

Thanks Aaron and everyone for raising this and for the productive
discussion. I have opened and summarised the issue in our tracker
(which doubtless has been robotically emailing the list as I type).

Issue:  https://www.w3.org/2011/webschema/track/issues/10 (taking
conclusions from this mail...)
Action: (on me to bring this to the schema team esp. re fixing
examples), https://www.w3.org/2011/webschema/track/actions/3

I think there might be a bit more investigation to do on whether
consumers are expecting links, plain text, hypertext, ... so I've made
a note to do that too.

cheers,

Dan

> So my takeaways are two-fold:
>
> 1.  The schema.org examples are incorrect, and each individual breadcrumb should
> be declared with itemprop.
> 2.  While schema.org describes the breadcrumb property as "[a] set of
> links" the expected property is text rather than URL, which at least
> technically affirms that breadcrumbs need not be links.
>
> Thanks!