I wrote: > This could be represented in Microdata without an extra element: > > <p itemscope> > This book has been authored by > <span itemprop="name"> > <a itemprop="url" href="http://smith.org/john">John > Smith</a> > </span> > </p> > > Not the same. The span element in my example was used to assert a type
Ahh, sorry, I dropped the type. But I did so by moving the itemscope to the p from the span. You can dangle the type off of <p> and avoid the extra element like so: <p itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> This book has been authored by <span itemprop="name"> <a itemprop="url" href="http://smith.org/john">John Smith</a> </span> </p>