Re: Syntax for itemprop breadcrumb

Hi,

Just to point out that in something like:

<div itemprop="breadcrumb">
  <a href="category/books.html">Books</a> >
  <a href="category/books-literature.html">Literature & Fiction</a> >
  <a href="category/books-classics">Classics</a>
</div>

the 'breadcrumb' property actually takes the value "Books > Literature & Fiction > Classics" (whitespace normalised for brevity). So whether or not they have <a> elements wrapped around individual words doesn't matter: a conformant microdata processor won't see them anyway.

I've raised this before, but it is still not clear to me whether

a. schema.org consumers only want that plain text string;
b. schema.org consumers are preserving the HTML content (contrary to the microdata spec); or
c. the examples are wrong and the itemprop should be on individual breadcrumb items

Cheers,

Jeni

On 16 Dec 2011, at 23:30, Aaron Bradley wrote:

> 
> 
> Thanks for weighing in, Tom.
> 
> In this case, though, all the examples explicitly show all breadcrumb links belonging to one itemprop - what they omit is an additional, unlinked "breadcrumb" component.
> 
> See on http://schema.org/WebPage:
> 
> <div itemprop="breadcrumb">
>   <a href="category/books.html">Books</a> >
>   <a href="category/books-literature.html">Literature & Fiction</a> >
>   <a href="category/books-classics">Classics</a>
> </div>
> 
> 
> By the way, the separate page identifier in the <h1> I wouldn't have a problem handling (it's not a breadcrumb) - it's the additional component on the same line.  E.g. (and this is the syntax I'm leaning towards - *not* including the unlinked item in the breadcrumb declaration):
> 
> 
> <div>
> 
> <span itemprop="breadcrumb">
>   <a href="category/books.html">Books</a> >
>   <a href="category/books-literature.html">Literature & Fiction</a> >
>   <a href="category/books-classics">Classics</a></span> >
>   Boring Classics
> </div>
> <h1>Boring Classics</h1>
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Tim van Oostrom <tim@depulz.nl>
>> To: public-vocabs@w3.org
>> Cc: 
>> Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 2:26:37 PM
>> Subject: Re: Syntax for itemprop breadcrumb
>> 
>> Hi Aaron,
>> I personally interpreted breadcrumb like:
>> 
>> <div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Thing";>
>>    <a href="category/books.html" 
>> itemprop="breadcrumb">Books</a>  >
>>    <a href="category/books-literature.html" 
>> itemprop="breadcrumb">Literature&  Fiction</a>  >
>>    <a href="category/books-classics" 
>> itemprop="breadcrumb">Classics</a>  >
>>    Boring Classics
>> <h1 itemprop="name">Boring Classics</h1>
>>   </div>
>> 
>> 
>> 1 breadcrumb per Item/Link (semantically more obvious and less work to 
>> determine what is what?)
>> 
>> You'd have a list of breadcrumb(s). This should however be an ordered list.
>> 
>> - Tim
>> 
>>>   In breadcrumb display, the unlinked current page or section is often 
>> displayed in the same line as the linked parents.  E.g.:
>>> 
>>>   <div><a href="/">Home</a>  | About 
>> us</div>
>>> 
>>>   Should this unlinked portion be ("About us" in the example above) 
>> be included in the breadcrumb itemprop or excluded from it? 1 or 2 below?
>>> 
>>> 
>>>   1 - Unlinked portion part of breadcrumb itemprop
>>> 
>>>   <div itemprop="breadcrumb">
>>>     <a href="category/books.html">Books</a>  >
>>>     <a 
>> href="category/books-literature.html">Literature&  
>> Fiction</a>  >
>>>     <a href="category/books-classics">Classics</a>  
>>> 
>>>     Boring Classics
>>>   </div>
>>> 
>>>   2 - Unlinked portion not a part of breadcrumb itemprop
>>> 
>>>   <div>
>>>   <span itemprop="breadcrumb">
>>>     <a href="category/books.html">Books</a>  >
>>>     <a 
>> href="category/books-literature.html">Literature&  
>> Fiction</a>  >
>>>     <a 
>> href="category/books-classics">Classics</a></span>  
>>> 
>>>     Boring Classics
>>>   </div>
>>> 
>>>   None of the schema.org examples show this use case.
>>> 
>>>   See also this same question on a G+ post - feel free to comment there.
>>>   https://plus.google.com/106943062990152739506/posts/Bf5ZYWkVtM1
>>> 
>>>   Thanks,
>>>   Aaron
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
> 
> 

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Jeni Tennison
http://www.jenitennison.com

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