Dangling nodes in templates

[shgysk8zer0]

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• My issue is with the specification, not with the vocabulary or schemas
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Describe your issue

How can we specify that a dangling node (belonging to a property but outside) should be removed if properties are missing?

Do you have sample markup & data?

{
    "@type": "Person",
    "@context": "http://schema.org",
    "givenName": "John",
    "familyName": "Smith"
}

<!-- As a template for article authors -->
<div itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" itemscope="">
    By <span itemprop="givenName"></span>
    <span itemprop="familyName"></span>
</div>

If you have any suggestions, please share:

Could add a class name or data-* attribute linking them and require no lose text nodes. That adds
to complexity, but may be required. Would be ideal if <template>s could be structured to avoid this, but I'm not sure it is always possible.

[shgysk8zer0]

Try this:

if (el.nextSibling.nodeType === Node.TEXT_NODE) {
    el.parentElement.removeChild(el.nextSibling);
}

This would mean that, assuming we can be certain that dangling text nodes need to be removed, it can be easily done without any particular requirements for structure and attributes.