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Bug 18644 - No mechanism is provided to specify logical values for NULL, an empty array, or an array with a single element. This makes conversion from JSON to microdata impossible for some data sets.
Summary: No mechanism is provided to specify logical values for NULL, an empty array, ...
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-08-21 17:26 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2013-01-30 23:20 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-08-21 17:26:08 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/microdata.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#head
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#head

Comment:
No mechanism is provided to specify logical values for NULL, an empty array,
or an array with a single element. This makes conversion from JSON to
microdata impossible for some data sets.

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-10-26 23:58:09 UTC 
What data are you trying to convert from JSON to HTML?

(In general, the goal of microdata is not to be a superset of every other generic data format.)
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-01-30 23:20:11 UTC 
If you can elaborate on what the limitation is here, please reopen this bug. As it stands I don't really understand why the stated limitation is a problem. Thanks!