Master Encoding Guide: Title

Record Content: Title Element

If there is no clearly defined "author to recipient" statement, the second line under the date should be tagged as a title, <ti>. To conform to the RelaxNG schema, there should always be either an AUTHOR and/or a TITLE present in each record.

<title>
As with the author and recipient elements, a title element may include child elements for <person>, <corporate>, and <office>, all with target attributes to separate directories. As with the recipient element, a title element may also include optional child elements for <enclosure>, <content>, and <ref> elements. The <ref> element includes a @target.

Example:

<title> Letter of credence from Congress <person target="huntingtonsamuel">(Samuel Huntington</person>, <office target="presidentofcon">President)</office> to the <office target="stadtholder">Stadtholder of the Netherlands.</office></title>

<legaltitle><docket>
A child element unique to <title> is the <legaltitle> element. Within <legaltitle> there is another child element, <docket>.

Example:

<title> <legaltitle>Minutes on court cases: <docket>J[oshua] Green, Admr. v. G[eorge] Green</docket> <docket>Malcom v. Mackay</docket> </legaltitle> </title>