Person RDFa example on website email issue unspeficied type?

[patdavid]

Apologies if this is not the right place for this.

Trying to add some RDFa to a page of mine and testing on the validator. I've run into the problem of having an "unspecified type" for an email - specifically using the example code from the Person page.

Basically, copying the example for a person on that page using RDFa:

    <div vocab="https://schema.org/" typeof="Person">
      <span property="name">Jane Doe</span>
      <img src="janedoe.jpg" property="image" alt="Photo of Jane Doe"/>

      <span property="jobTitle">Professor</span>
      <div property="address" typeof="PostalAddress">
        <span property="streetAddress">
          20341 Whitworth Institute
          405 N. Whitworth
        </span>
        <span property="addressLocality">Seattle</span>,
        <span property="addressRegion">WA</span>
        <span property="postalCode">98052</span>
      </div>
      <span property="telephone">(425) 123-4567</span>
      <a href="mailto:[email protected]" property="email">
        [email protected]</a>

      Jane's home page:
      <a href="http://www.janedoe.com" property="url">janedoe.com</a>

      Graduate students:
      <a href="http://www.xyz.edu/students/alicejones.html" property="colleague">
        Alice Jones</a>
      <a href="http://www.xyz.edu/students/bobsmith.html" property="colleague">
        Bob Smith</a>
    </div>

Into the Validator doesn't show any errors, but it also doesn't show any value for the email (just Unspecified Type):

Is this a problem with the example code or the validator?

[patdavid]

I should note that the JSON-LD code does seem to work as expected:

[patdavid]

And so does the microdata version:

[RichardWallis]

Looks like a problem with the RDFa parser in the validator.

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[NotARobit]

Does anyone know if this affects Google Rich Snippets? I see that I can add typeof="text" to my tag to make the validator happy, but I don't want to confuse Google.

[WeaverStever]

It appears that email is listed as a property in Person. Rich Snippets does support Person.

If we look in Rich Snippets Organization example, one has the email property at the top level, the second example has the email address nested within ContactPoint. Person also has the contactPoint property, so this might be a work-around.

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