13529 2011-08-02 20:49:55 +0000 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 2011-08-14 09:16:34 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG LC1 HTML5 spec unspecified Other other RESOLVED WONTFIX http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top P3 normal --- 1 contributor ian annevk jackalmage mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 52007 0 contributor 2011-08-02 20:49:55 +0000 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 Posted from: 198.169.189.226 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/12.0.742.122 Safari/534.30 52011 1 jackalmage 2011-08-02 21:27:23 +0000 If you really want structure to your embedded invisible metadata, just wrap it with an invisible <div> that carries the itemscope attribute. 53845 2 mike 2011-08-04 05:33:46 +0000 mass-move component to LC1 54949 3 annevk 2011-08-14 09:16:34 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: <http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html>. Status: Rejected Change Description: no spec change Rationale: We cannot change the way <meta> works.