Stars and aggregated rating are not shown when using schema.org markup and and Review in xhtml page

Question

I'm trying to implement schema.org's microData format in my xhtml template. Since I'm using xhtml templates, I needed to add

<div itemprop="reviews" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Review">

instead of:

<div itemprop="reviews" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Review">

otherwise my template wouldn't be parsed. I found the solution here

My markup looks like this:

<div itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place">

                        <div itemprop="aggregateRating" itemscope="itemscope"
                             itemtype="http://schema.org/AggregateRating">
                            <span itemprop="ratingValue">#{company.meanRating}</span> stars -
                            based on <span itemprop="reviewCount">#{company.confirmedReviewCount}</span> reviews
                        </div>

                        <ui:repeat var="review" value="#{company.reverseConfirmedReviews}">

                            <div itemprop="reviews" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Review">
                                <span itemprop="name">Not a happy camper</span> -
                                by <span itemprop="author">#{review.reviewer.firstName}</span>,
                                <div itemprop="reviewRating" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Rating">
                                    <span itemprop="ratingValue">1</span>/
                                    <span itemprop="bestRating">5</span>stars
                                </div>
                                <span itemprop="description">#{review.text} </span>
                            </div>

                        </ui:repeat>
                    </div>

When testing this in http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets I'm not getting any stars back or aggregated review count

What am I doing wrong here?

Answer 1

hey checkout how holidayhq guys have done it for this url : www.holidayiq.com/destinations/Lonavala-Overview.html

you can check there snippet on this tool : http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets

and google out this keyword "lonavala attractions" and you will see the same snippet, they have used microdata to generate this reviews in snippet, they have used typeof="v:Review-aggregate" and much more tags, have a look at it, its nice implementation of the reviews in snippet kind of work.

Answer 2

Yes!! The problem actually consisted of two errors, first somebody had named the div class to "hReview-aggregate" which is appropriate when you implement Microformats not Microdata

The second error was that I misunderstood the specification of schema.org. This is how I end up doing:

           <div class="box bigBox" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/LocalBusiness">
               <span itemprop="name">#{viewCompany.name}</span>
                <div class="subLeftColumn" style="margin-top:10px;" itemprop="aggregateRating" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/AggregateRating">        
                    <div class="num">
                        <span class="rating" id="companyRating" itemprop="ratingValue">#{rating}</span>
                    </div>
                    <div>Grade</div>
                    <div class="num">
                         <span class="count" id="companyCount" itemprop="reviewCount">
                              #{confirmedReviewCount}
                         </span>
                    </div>
                </div>
            </div>

Hope this helps!!!!!