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t1merritt

07 Oct, 2015 05:19 PM

Hello,

We are tagging up some of our markup with microdata and Cascade does not like the itemscope attribute because it is an attribute without an "=". What is the proper way to pass it through without the error, or without Cascade substituting itemscope="" ? We are referencing this via Format with Velocity.

Thank You.

1. 1 Posted by Ryan Griffith on 07 Oct, 2015 06:30 PM

   

   Hi,

   Curious, but did you try surrounding the code containing the attribute with a #protect tag? This should tell Cascade to skip over that content during XML validation.

   Please let me know if you have any questions.

   Thanks!

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2. 2 Posted by t1merritt on 08 Oct, 2015 04:51 PM

   

   Hi Ryan,

   Yeah, tried it and Cascade is barking at it. Maybe I’m not quite implementing the #protect tag quite right. Tried it both ways, <!—#protect #protect—> and <![CDATA[#protect #protect]]>

   Here’s the line of code we are trying to accomplish with the attribute:

   <li class="$eventTypeClass” itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Event”>

   Thanks much for any other suggestions.

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3. 3 Posted by Ryan Griffith on 08 Oct, 2015 07:15 PM

   

   Hi,

   Where are you placing the code section tags? What error are you seeing?

   Thanks!

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4. 4 Posted by t1merritt on 08 Oct, 2015 10:32 PM

   

   I’m just wrapping the itemscope, like so:
   <li class="$eventTypeClass" <!—#protect itemscope #protect—> itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Event">

   And, this is the error:
   An error occurred while rendering asset preview: Error on line 26: Element type "li" must be followed by either attribute specifications, ">" or "/>".

   This is the original error without the protect code:
   An error occurred while rendering asset preview: Error on line 26: Attribute name "itemscope" associated with an element type "li" must be followed by the ' = ' character.

   Thank You.

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5. 5 Posted by Ryan Griffith on 09 Oct, 2015 05:12 PM

   

   Thank you for following up.

   Instead of wrapping the attribute, try to wrap the entire <li> and let me know how it works out:

   <!--#protect<li class="$eventTypeClass” itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Event”>#protect-->
   

   If you need to see the list item, you could try the following. In some situations; however, the --> portion of the first #protect gets dumped to the page, but worth a shot.

   <!--#protect--><li class="$eventTypeClass” itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Event”><!--#protect-->
   

   Please let me know if you have any questions.

   Thanks!

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6. 6 Posted by t1merritt on 12 Oct, 2015 04:03 PM

   

   Okay,

   So here’s the solution that worked. It’s a protect on the opening and the closing tag:

   <!--#protect
                       <li class="$eventTypeClass" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Event”>
   #protect—>
   
   — Code/Markup inside of list item —
   
   <!--#protect
                       </li>
   #protect—>
   

   Thanks much for your time, Ryan.

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7. Support Staff 7 Posted by Tim on 12 Oct, 2015 04:06 PM

   

   Thanks for the update and for posting your working solution! I'm glad Ryan was able to help you out. Have a good one!

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8. Tim closed this discussion on 12 Oct, 2015 04:06 PM.