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Bug 23696 - There should be a note explaining why FULL STOP and COLON characters are (inexplicably) disallowed in itemprop attribute name tokens.
Summary: There should be a note explaining why FULL STOP and COLON characters are (ine...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
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: 2013-11-01 03:19 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2013-11-19 22:16 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2013-11-01 03:19:45 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/microdata.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#names:-the-itemprop-attribute
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#names:-the-itemprop-attribute
Referrer: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/

Comment:
There should be a note explaining why FULL STOP and COLON characters are
(inexplicably) disallowed in itemprop attribute name tokens.

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-11-01 23:04:53 UTC 
Yeah that's probably a reasonable thing for us to document. (Colons are disallowed because they would make it harder to tell if the value was a URL or not; periods are disallowed so that we can introduce javaesque domain-label-based names later.)
Comment 2 contributor 2013-11-19 22:16:57 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r8300.
Check-in comment: Explain microdata restrictions on property names
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=8299&to=8300