SiteNavigationElement crap in current form?

[timmelody]

Ok no I don't mean crap, but hopefully I did get your attention.

The issue is, when checking markup with Google's Structured Data Testing Tool, it simply does not recognize "SiteNavigationElement" or return any sort of result to indicate Google is saying "Yes, I understand this is your SiteNavigationElement."

My hunch has been that this is because there is no itemprop="url" being automatically added to the menu links.

I tested my theory with this code placed in an HTML snippet on one of my pages

<ul itemscope itemtype="http://www.schema.org/SiteNavigationElement">
<li><a href="/about.html" itemprop="url">About</a></li>
<li><a href="/contact.html" itemprop="url">Contact</a></li>
<li><a href="/" itemprop="url">Home</a></li>
</ul>

and sure enough the Structured Data Testing result immediately recognizes the snippet, returning the result:

Item
type: http://schema.org/sitenavigationelement
property:
url: About
url: Contact
url: Home

but still completely ignores the markup in my Genesis theme (Decor).

So the question is, how can we expand the SiteNavigationElement markup to include itemprop="url" on each menu link so that Google actually recognizes it?

Or, is there something I am missing?

Thanks for any help and tips.

[Tom]

I believe that this is something you'll have to address with StudioPress: http://my.studiopress.com/help/

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