Keeping markup inside values

[chaals]

For various reasons - internationalisation, accessibility, … - it is helpful to have rich / marked up text for content, but microdata currently strips everything back to raw text. Is it possible to change that.

[danbri]

Here's some RDFa, which gets around this using a @datatype attribute to control parsing of property values:

 <span property="name">Rug</span>
 <div property="description" datatype="rdf:XMLLiteral">
    My awesome rug:
    <ul>
      <li>Surface 4m<sup>2</sup></li>
      <li>Really <em>ties</em> the room together</li>
    </ul>
  </div>
</div>`

[chaals]

I think we can close this. It's known, you can use RDFa if you want the functionality, and it doesn't seem to have generated howls of discontent.

There are specific consequences, e.g. for internationalisation and accessibility, but they can be dealt with in more focused issues.

[danbri]

If I was the I18N reviewer I would be tempted to make a fuss. We'll see!