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Bug 13529 - In HTML, the content of the meta tag is empty, however, it also serves the dual purpose of being able to store metadata for an item. When that metadata is structured as an item, there needs to be a way to include further meta tags within the original met
Summary: In HTML, the content of the meta tag is empty, however, it also serves the du...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-08-02 20:49 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-14 09:16 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-08-02 20:49:55 UTC 
Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top

Comment:
In HTML, the content of the meta tag is empty, however, it also serves the
dual purpose of being able to store metadata for an item.  When that metadata
is structured as an item, there needs to be a way to include further meta tags
within the original meta tag to reproduce the structure.  This could be
handled with itemref attributes pointing to the id for subsequent meta tags,
but it would be simpler to allow meta to contain other meta tags.

An example of where this is easier is when converting from an existing XML
structure using XSLT recursively.  A simple solution to convert an XML tree
into microdata (when there is no associated text content) is to generate a
meta element where itemprop='element-name' and content='element-value', and
where there is nested elements or attributes, to process those as inner (meta)
children of the outer meta element.

For more information, please contact:
Keith W. Boone
keith.boone@ge.com

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Comment 1 Tab Atkins Jr. 2011-08-02 21:27:23 UTC 
If you really want structure to your embedded invisible metadata, just wrap it with an invisible <div> that carries the itemscope attribute.
Comment 2 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:33:46 UTC 
mass-move component to LC1
Comment 3 Anne 2011-08-14 09:16:34 UTC 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: We cannot change the way <meta> works.