Phone number Schema that Google WMT blog talked about this week throwing HTML Validation error

[RoxBrock]

My code looks like this:

• 888.723.4617

The HTML validation errors are these:

Attribute contacttype not allowed on element span at this point.
Attribute areaserved not allowed on element span at this point.
Attribute contactoption not allowed on element span at this point.
Attribute availablelanguage not allowed on element span at this point.

Have I misread how to implement this schema or is html validation not up to speed and I should ignore for now?

Link to blog Post...http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2014/04/surfacing-your-businesss-contact-and.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FamDG+%28Official+Google+Webmaster+Central+Blog%29

Thanks!

[RoxBrock]

Thanks for double checking for me. I appreciate it!

[Whebb]

The rich snippet testing tool looks to show valid schema markup on the page you sent and the sample link I sent passed html5 validation. At this point looks like certain parts of the schema markup are not recognized by the validator. Good to know this is the case, thanks for sharing the link.

[RoxBrock]

This page has the schema on the phone numbers in the top right and in the footer: http://m.mexpro.com/

[Whebb]

Well the document in question needs to be formatted in HTML5, otherwise it will not validate correctly. So if you run an HTML4 or XHTML page through the HTML5 validator it will not pass. You can also check here to see if the structured data is implemented correctly. Are you able to provide an example of the page you are trying to validate?

[RoxBrock]

I am positive I check with html4. I put the code in here so.... not sure what is up...Could the code put in for mobile look like it's in there twice and not validate?

[Whebb]

Hello,

Are you sure you checked the HTML5 spec? This seems to validate for me and is only basic html5 with schema markup. It's possible you have not marked up the code properly.  Google provides some examples to assist with this. I believe you need to do the full markup too, not just certain parts. Hope that helps.

[RoxBrock]

It does not validate for html5, but thanks for your input.

[Whebb]

Hello,

I believe it is valid under the HTML5 doctype, but not others. If you try and validate it under that doctype it clears validation. Generally I think you can ignore this issue for now as shouldn't cause any issues if it does not validate.