RE: Referencing consolidated information

I've stumbled across the idref attribute and it seems to be the solution
to my problem.  I can see that it is ignored by the Rich Snippets
Testing Tool.  Is there any plan to support it?

 

Thanks!

 

Ralph

 

From: LeVan,Ralph 
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 12:05 PM
To: 'public-vocabs@w3.org'
Subject: Referencing consolidated information

 

I have pages about people.  In those pages, I have information about
books they have written.  Because all the books were written by the same
person, I don't display the author's name redundantly.  That means that
I can't provide an "author" property for the books.

 

Is there a way to reference a piece of content elsewhere on the page as
a property of an item?

 

Thanks!

 

Ralph LeVan

Sr. Research Scientist

OCLC Research