Matching Order in LxmlMicrodataExtractor._extract_property_value

[kelvinso]

I noticed that the matching order of _extract_property_value seems to be inconsistent with https://www.w3.org/TR/microdata/#values. In this doc, it mentions that the 2nd matching case is "If the element has a content attribute". However, in LxmlMicrodataExtractor._extract_property_value, it is 2nd to the last in the matching order.

Should this case

 elif node.get("content"):
            return node.get("content")

in w3cmicrodata.py be moved before resolving for meta tag at line 186?

Thanks a lot!
Kelvin

[Gallaecio]

Yeah, it looks like the changes they’ve made to the specification since 2013 (that code is from 2014) include allowing content on any node, which back in 2013 was non-standard yet supported by extruct.

We should probably review the standard changes in general, there may be more surprises.