Not Appropriate Usage Examples

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Property genre is Text intended and not URL

As seen on IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1194173/ --Admin66 13:16, 15 August 2012 (CEST)

genre is a Schema.org property defined by CreativeWork class and its expected type is Text. The HTML5 Microdata specification describes the a.

If the element is an a, area, or link element

The attribute must act as it would if it was reflecting the element's href content attribute. [1]

<a itemprop="genre" href="/genre/Action">Action</a>

According with the recommendation the RDF representation of the above markup is

 :_ schema:genre <http://imdb.com/genre/Action>.

while the intended meaning is

 :_ schema:genre "Action".

Therefore we recommend the below markup:

<a href="/genre/Action">
   <span itemprop="genre">Action</span>
</a>