Keeping both microdata and microformats

Question

I read that I should prefer putting in html code Microdata instead of Microformats, and actually I integrated both in my website.

Is it a bad practice keeping both? Should I have to remove the Microformats code?

Thanks

Answer 1

No need to remove it.

Some consumers only look for Microformats, some consumers only look for Microdata, and those that look for both should¹ have no reason to get confused. The syntaxes don’t share any mechanism, so there is no potential for conflicts.

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¹ In the early days, Google stated that authors shouldn’t use both because "it may confuse the parser", but they revoked this shortly after.