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I've a problem with validation of the code provided by Google. Idea is (simplified):

<head itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/WebSite">
  <title itemprop="name">Example.com - Best Website in the World</title>
  <meta name="description" content="Blah Blah Blah" itemprop="description">
  <link rel="canonical" href="https://example.com/" itemprop="url">
</head>

Inspired by Google documentation (see markup example).

The main problem is that the code above isn't valid:

Attribute itemprop not allowed on element meta at this point.
Attribute itemprop not allowed on element link at this point.

But if I remove itemprop, Google Structure Tool no longer recognizes the url and description as properties.

Please tell me why is that, I mean why does Google provide non-valid code and how can I solve this?

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The example is invalid HTML+Microdata. It is not allowed to have the itemprop attribute on meta[name] or link[rel] elements.

The solution for HTML+Microdata would be to duplicate the elements:

<head itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/WebSite">
  <title itemprop="name">Example.com - Best Website in the World</title>
  <meta name="description" content="Blah Blah Blah">
  <meta itemprop="description" content="Blah Blah Blah">
  <link rel="canonical" href="https://example.com/">
  <link itemprop="url" href="https://example.com/">
</head>

With HTML+RDFa, it’s possible to mix:

<head typeof="schema:WebSite">
  <title property="schema:name">Example.com - Best Website in the World</title>
  <meta name="description" property="schema:description" content="Blah Blah Blah">
  <link rel="canonical" property="schema:url" href="https://example.com/">
</head>
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  • This helps, thank you! Advice me please, do you recommend to use Microdata or RDFa?
    – Mike
    Commented Mar 9, 2017 at 22:47
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    @Mike: I prefer RDFa, and I typically recommend RDFa -- but without knowing more about your case, such a recommendation wouldn’t mean much, of course. -- See my answer to our question Microdata vs RFDa (or the more detailed version on Stack Overflow)
    – unor
    Commented Mar 10, 2017 at 0:35
  • Excuse me, can you point me to the education material, please, where I can read about usage of prefix inside the typeof property? I see it's working, but I've just read RDFa Lite spec at W3C and they say I can use predefined prefixes when I assign second vocabulary via prefixes but they didn't mention that I can omit vocab property and use the prefixes right inside the typeof. So I'm a bit lost and don't know what's is the right way - should I use vocab or prefixes like you did in the example above? Thank you.
    – Mike
    Commented Mar 10, 2017 at 21:49
  • And in your RDFa example the url property doesn't recognized by Google Structure Tool, even though it's valid, yeah. But it works only if I add second link with this property.
    – Mike
    Commented Mar 10, 2017 at 22:25
  • @Mike: There are several ways how terms can be specified in RDFa. I gave three examples in another answer. In this answer here I made use of the RDFa Core Initial Context (not necessarily the best practice; if you are comfortable with RDFa and don’t mind the additional markup, I would always explicitly specify the vocabulary with prefix).
    – unor
    Commented Mar 11, 2017 at 1:12

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