Where an element with such a microformat property class name has a descendant with class name value (a "value element") not inside some other property element, parsers should use the following portion of that value element
This says nothing of microformat roots (h-* classes), which presumably should also be skipped over.
The Value Class Pattern document states, in part:
This says nothing of microformat roots (
h-*
classes), which presumably should also be skipped over.