Names and Descriptions

Locations, Services and Organizations all have name and description field that can contain free text.

A name and alternate_name field should only ever include plain text, without formatting.

A description field may include HTML elements or Markdown, with special characters escaped or encoded.

Consuming applications that expect plain-text only should strip HTML tags from these fields.

Publishers should also be aware that some applications may wish to extract a ‘short description’ from the description field, and may do so by looking for the first full sentence, or first line-break.