Re: makesOffer should accept Service

Dan,

Thanks for the explanation. That makes more sense. According to the whatwg
spec, "The item types of an
item<http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/microdata.html#concept-item>
are
the tokens obtained by splitting the element's itemtype attribute's value
on spaces<http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/common-microsyntaxes.html#split-a-string-on-spaces>.
If the itemtype<http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/microdata.html#attr-itemtype>
attribute
is missing or parsing it in this way finds no tokens, the
item<http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/microdata.html#concept-item>
is
said to have no item
types<http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/microdata.html#item-types>
."

Is there anything keeping me from changing your fourth line to: <div
itemprop="itemOffered" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Product
http://schema.org/Service">? While I understand that "Product" can also
refer to a service, I don't find it as semantic.


On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Dan Scott <dan@coffeecode.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Tyler Shuster
> <tyler.herrshuster@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm just starting out here, but it seems to me that "makesOffer" should
> also
> > accept Thing/Intangible/Service. Specifically, I work for a computer
> repair
> > company and I want to be able to say that we provide a service, not a
> > product. My markup under "schema.org/LocalBusiness" is `
> > itemprop="makesOffer" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Service/"`.
>
> Hi Tyler:
>
> http://schema.org/makesOffer actually takes an Offer. Offer has an
> itemOffered property, which in turn points at a Product. The
> definition of http://schema.org/Product is that it includes commodity
> services; that is, your service _is_ the product.
>
> Your markup should end up looking like:
>
> <div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization">
> <h1 itemprop="name">Computer Repair Inc</h1>
> <div itemprop="makesOffer" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Offer">
> <div itemprop="itemOffered" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Product
> ">
> <h2 itemprop="name">Computer repair</h2>
> </div>
> <div itemprop="price">$100 / hour</div>
> </div>
> </div>
>
> (You would flesh it out further, of course).
>
> Name aside, is there anything about "Service" vs "Product" that you
> feel you need to describe your offering that the current Offer /
> Product approach does not cover?
>