Microdata Rich Snippets Showing On Home Page?

Question

I added the schema.org rich snippets code inside the <head> and the text is showing up on my home page, what am I doing wrong?

DTD

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML+RDFa 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/DTD/xhtml-rdfa-1.dtd">

...

Snippet Code

<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/EntertainmentBusiness">
       <span itemprop="name">MySite.com</span>
       <div itemprop="aggregateRating" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/AggregateRating">
            <span itemprop="ratingValue">4.5</span> stars -
            based on <span itemprop="reviewCount">233</span> Reviews
        </div>
    </div>

@unor I haven't posted the whole section... just the important bits relating to the issue — ubique, Apr 21 '13 at 13:39

unor · Answer 1 · 2013-04-21T13:50:56.837

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div is not allowed in head.

Parser’s think that the body started since they encounter div, so this content is displayed.

See "Content model" for the allowed content of the head element.

edited Apr 21 '13 at 13:50

answered Apr 21 '13 at 13:43

unor

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The code is from Schema.org and it uses Divs in the head of the document - any solutions to get it working correctly? – ubique Apr 21 '13 at 18:42
@ubique: Could you link to such an example? – unor Apr 21 '13 at 20:28
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@ubique: These are not in the `head` element. – unor Apr 22 '13 at 11:07

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 22 '13 at 10:09

The correct DTD to use for XHTML and MicroData is:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional with HTML5 microdata//EN" "xhtml1-transitional-with-html5-microdata.dtd">

Found a code example from schema.org that uses the 'meta' tag - although it's not recommended from an SEO point of view according to the articles I have read:

<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Offer">
  <span itemprop="name">Blend-O-Matic</span>
  <span itemprop="price">$19.95</span>
  <div itemprop="reviews" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/AggregateRating">
    <img src="four-stars.jpg" />
    <meta itemprop="ratingValue" content="4" />
    <meta itemprop="bestRating" content="5" />
    Based on <span itemprop="ratingCount">25</span> user ratings
  </div>
</div>

Microdata Rich Snippets Showing On Home Page?

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