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Bug 26772 - Here's from the actual documentation for the `address` element: The address element must not be used [...]
Summary: Here's from the actual documentation for the `address` element: The address e...
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
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: 2014-09-10 13:06 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2014-09-10 15:00 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2014-09-10 13:06:00 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/microdata.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#examples-2
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#examples-2
Referrer: http://www.data-vocabulary.org/Geo/

Comment:
Here's from the actual documentation for the `address` element: The address
element must not be used to represent arbitrary addresses (e.g. postal
addresses), unless those addresses are in fact the relevant contact
information. (The p element is the appropriate element for marking up postal
addresses in general.) This example should use a `p` tag instead of the
`address` tag for marking up an address.

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2014-09-10 15:00:02 UTC 
I'm assuming this is for the example that says "This example shows a site's contact details (using the address element) containing an address with two street components". If so, then <address> is valid, because it's the _site's_ contact details, i.e., "relevant contact information".