microdata; hixie: Remove the requirement that UAs check that item types are syntactically correct after splitting the itemtype='' attribute. (whatwg r6807)

microdata; hixie: Remove the requirement that UAs check that item types
are syntactically correct after splitting the itemtype='' attribute.
(whatwg r6807)

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/md/Overview.html?r1=1.174&r2=1.175&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6806&to=6807

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RCS file: /sources/public/html5/md/Overview.html,v
retrieving revision 1.174
retrieving revision 1.175
diff -u -d -r1.174 -r1.175
--- Overview.html 1 Nov 2011 03:17:24 -0000 1.174
+++ Overview.html 1 Nov 2011 16:31:49 -0000 1.175
@@ -1068,12 +1068,10 @@
   <span>case-sensitive</span>, each of which is a <a href="#valid-url">valid
   URL</a> that is an <a href="#absolute-url">absolute URL</a>, and all of which
   are defined to use the same vocabulary. The attribute's value must
-  have at least one token.<p>The <dfn id="item-types">item types</dfn> of an <a href="#concept-item" title="concept-item">item</a> are the <a href="#absolute-url" title="absolute
-  URL">absolute URLs</a> obtained by <a href="#split-a-string-on-spaces" title="split a string on
-  spaces">splitting the element's <code title="attr-itemtype">itemtype</code> attribute's value on
+  have at least one token.<p>The <dfn id="item-types">item types</dfn> of an <a href="#concept-item" title="concept-item">item</a> are the tokens obtained by <a href="#split-a-string-on-spaces" title="split a string on spaces">splitting the element's <code title="attr-itemtype">itemtype</code> attribute's value on
   spaces</a>. If the <code title="attr-itemtype"><a href="#attr-itemtype">itemtype</a></code>
-  attribute is missing or parsing it in this way finds no tokens that
-  are <a href="#absolute-url" title="absolute URL">absolute URLs</a>, the <a href="#concept-item" title="concept-item">item</a> is said to have no <a href="#item-types">item
+  attribute is missing or parsing it in this way finds no tokens, the
+  <a href="#concept-item" title="concept-item">item</a> is said to have no <a href="#item-types">item
   types</a>.<p>The <a href="#item-types">item types</a> must all be types defined in <span title="other applicable specifications">applicable
   specifications</span> and must all be defined to use the same
   vocabulary.<div class="impl">
@@ -1552,12 +1550,6 @@
   object returned by the earlier call. In other cases, a new
   <code>NodeList</code> object must be returned.</p>
 
-  <p class="note">Since a token in the <code title="attr-itemtype"><a href="#attr-itemtype">itemtype</a></code> attribute that is not an
-  <a href="#absolute-url">absolute URL</a> is not considered to be one of the item's
-  <a href="#item-types">item types</a>, any tokens passed to <code title="dom-document-getItems"><a href="#dom-document-getitems">getItems()</a></code> that are not
-  themselves <a href="#absolute-url" title="absolute URL">absolute URLs</a> will
-  cause the method to return an empty <code>NodeList</code>.</p>
-
   <p>The <dfn id="dom-itemscope" title="dom-itemScope"><code>itemScope</code></dfn> IDL
   attribute on <a href="#html-elements">HTML elements</a> must <a href="#reflect">reflect</a>
   the <code title="attr-itemscope"><a href="#attr-itemscope">itemscope</a></code> content attribute.

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