title

<title>

<title> contains the full title of a work of any kind. 3.11.2.2 Authors, Titles, and Editors 2.2.1 The Title Statement 2.2.5 The Series Statement

Module

core — 3 Elements Available in All TEI Documents

Attributes

In addition to global attributes

level

indicates the bibliographic level for a title, that is, whether it identifies an article, book, journal, series, or unpublished material.

Status

Required when applicable

Legal values are:

a	(analytic) analytic title (article, poem, or other item published as part of a larger item)
m	(monographic) monographic title (book, collection, or other item published as a distinct item, including single volumes of multi-volume works)
j	(journal) journal title
s	(series) series title
u	(unpublished) title of unpublished material (including theses and dissertations unless published by a commercial press)

Note

If the title appears directly enclosed within an analytic element, the level, if given, must be ‘a’; if it appears directly enclosed within a monogr element, level must be ‘m’, ‘j’, or ‘u’; when title is directly enclosed by series, level must be ‘s’. If it appears within a msItem, this attribute should not be supplied.

type

classifies the title according to some convenient typology.

Status

Optional

Datatype

<rng:ref name="data.enumerated"/>

data.enumerated

Sample values include:

main	main title
sub	(subordinate) subtitle, title of part
alt	(alternate) alternate title, often in another language, by which the work is also known
short	abbreviated form of title
desc	(descriptive) descriptive paraphrase of the work functioning as a title

Note

This attribute is provided for convenience in analysing titles and processing them according to their type; where such specialized processing is not necessary, there is no need for such analysis, and the entire title, including subtitles and any parallel titles, may be enclosed within a single title element.

Declaration

<rng:element name="title">
 <rng:ref name="att.global.attributes"/>
 <rng:optional>
  <rng:attribute name="level">
   <rng:choice>
    <rng:value>a</rng:value>
    <rng:value>m</rng:value>
    <rng:value>j</rng:value>
    <rng:value>s</rng:value>
    <rng:value>u</rng:value>
   </rng:choice>
  </rng:attribute>
 </rng:optional>
 <rng:optional>
  <rng:attribute name="type">
   <rng:ref name="data.enumerated"/>
  </rng:attribute>
 </rng:optional>
 <rng:ref name="macro.paraContent"/>
</rng:element>

element title
{
   att.global.attributes,
   attribute level { "a" | "m" | "j" | "s" | "u" }?,
   attribute type { data.enumerated }?,
   macro.paraContent
}

Example

<title>La vie mode d'emploi. Romans.</title>

Example

<title>Synthese: an international journal for epistemology, methodology
and history of science</title>

Example

<title>Information Technology and the Research Process: Proceedings
of a conference held at Cranfield Institute of Technology, UK, 18–21
July 1989</title>

Example

<title>Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles: a machine readable edition</title>

Contained by

analytic monogr msItemStruct series seriesStmt titleStmt model.emphLike model.msItemPart

May contain

analysis: c cl interp interpGrp m phr s span spanGrp w

certainty: certainty respons