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Bug 17727 - "The itemid attribute, if specified, must have a value that is a valid URL." contradicts the example that shows a URI (urn:) a bit further down; should this read "valid URI"?
Summary: "The itemid attribute, if specified, must have a value that is a valid URL." ...
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML Microdata (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-07-09 20:38 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2013-04-05 14:14 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-07-09 20:38:04 UTC 
Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-microdata-20110525/
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top

Comment:
"The itemid attribute, if specified, must have a value that is a valid URL."
contradicts the example that shows a URI (urn:) a bit further down; should
this read "valid URI"?

Posted from: 2620:0:1000:1a01:be30:5bff:fedc:f364
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/536.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/20.0.1132.47 Safari/536.11
Comment 1 contributor 2012-07-18 07:24:58 UTC 
This bug was cloned to create bug 17966 as part of operation convergence.
Comment 2 Robin Berjon 2013-04-05 14:14:52 UTC 
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
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: none
Rationale: A URN is a URL in this context.