http://schema.org/docs/faq.html#14 http://schema.org/docs/faq.html#14 It seems that they chose Microdata over RDFa because the latter's syntax was deemed to be

http://schema.org/docs/faq.html#14 http://schema.org/docs/faq.html#14 It seems that they chose Microdata over RDFa because the latter's syntax was deemed to be unwieldy. It's not really true that RDFa is more extensible than microdata, there are a small number of missing features related to XML data, but nothing too significant for these use cases; see, for example, [1] [1] http://bnode.org/blog/2010/01/26/microdata-semantic-markup-for-both-rdfers-and-non-rdfers http://bnode.org/blog/2010/01/26/microdata-semantic-markup-f...