diff --git a/src/MicrodataDOMElement.php b/src/MicrodataDOMElement.php
index aec06d3..05493cb 100644
--- a/src/MicrodataDOMElement.php
+++ b/src/MicrodataDOMElement.php
@@ -14,7 +14,11 @@ class MicrodataDOMElement extends \DOMElement
             $tokens = $this->tokenizeAttribute('itemref');
 
             foreach ($tokens as $token) {
-                // @todo Implement xpath query and get the first item
+                $references = $this->ownerDocument->xpath->query('//*[@id="'.$token.'"]');
+
+                if ($first = $references->item(0)) {
+                    $pending[] = $first;
+                }
             }
         }
 
diff --git a/tests/MicrodataParserTest.php b/tests/MicrodataParserTest.php
index ffde0e7..6d5a567 100644
--- a/tests/MicrodataParserTest.php
+++ b/tests/MicrodataParserTest.php
@@ -67,6 +67,9 @@ class MicrodataParserTest extends \PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase
             'W3C Example' => [
                 $this->getTestData('W3C', 'source.html', 'result.json')
             ],
+            'Itemref & src based tags' => [
+                $this->getTestData('Itemref', 'source.html', 'result.json')
+            ],
         ];
     }
 
diff --git a/tests/data/Itemref/result.json b/tests/data/Itemref/result.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b93b190
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/data/Itemref/result.json
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+{
+  "items": [
+    {
+      "type": [ "http://n.whatwg.org/work" ],
+      "properties": {
+        "work": [ "http://blog.example.com/gallery/images/house.jpeg" ],
+        "title": [ "The house I found." ],
+        "license": [ "http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php" ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "type": [ "http://n.whatwg.org/work" ],
+      "properties": {
+        "work": [ "http://blog.example.com/gallery/images/mailbox.jpeg" ],
+        "title": [ "The mailbox." ],
+        "license": [ "http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php" ]
+      }
+    }
+  ]
+}
diff --git a/tests/data/Itemref/source.html b/tests/data/Itemref/source.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..40dd9c9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/data/Itemref/source.html
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<!-- URI: http://blog.example.com/gallery/ -->
+<!DOCTYPE HTML>
+<html>
+<head>
+    <title>Photo gallery</title>
+</head>
+<body>
+    <h1>My photos</h1>
+    <figure itemscope itemtype="http://n.whatwg.org/work" itemref="licenses">
+        <img itemprop="work" src="images/house.jpeg" alt="A white house, boarded up, sits in a forest.">
+        <figcaption itemprop="title">The house I found.</figcaption>
+    </figure>
+    <figure itemscope itemtype="http://n.whatwg.org/work" itemref="licenses">
+        <img itemprop="work" src="images/mailbox.jpeg" alt="Outside the house is a mailbox. It has a leaflet inside.">
+        <figcaption itemprop="title">The mailbox.</figcaption>
+    </figure>
+    <footer>
+        <p id="licenses">All images licensed under the
+            <a itemprop="license" href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php">MIT license</a>.
+        </p>
+    </footer>
+</body>
+</html>
