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<title-group> Title Group

Container element to hold the various titles for a document or a document component.

Usage/Remarks

Best Practice

A footnote or other reference inside a title should usually be placed within the title tag, but such footnotes may be placed into a footnote group (<fn-group>) at the end of the <title-group>, if that is the way the footnotes have been placed in the original tagging of the article.
Related Elements
There are several elements concerned with the title of an article, all contained within the container element <title-group> in the article metadata:
  • The <article-title> is the full title of the article.
  • The <subtitle> is a subordinate or auxiliary title that adds information to the full title or modifies the full title.
  • The <alt-title> is another version of an article title, usually created so that the title can be processed in a distinct way, for example, a short version of the title for use in a Table of Contents, an ASCII title, or a version of the title to be used in the right-running-head.
The entire <title-group> should repeat to handle multiple languages, using the @xml:lang attribute to mark the language of the title group.
Attributes

Multi-lang Attributes

lang-focus
lang-focus-custom
lang-group
lang-source
lang-source-custom
lang-translate
lang-variant
lang-variant-custom

Base Attributes

id
xml:base
xml:lang
Models and Context
May be contained in
<article-meta>, <front-stub>
Description
The following, in order:
Content Model
<!ELEMENT  title-group  %title-group-model;                          >
Expanded Content Model

(article-title, subtitle*, trans-title-group*, alt-title*, fn-group?)

Tagged Sample

With <article-title> 

<article dtd-version="1.4d1">
 <front>
  <journal-meta>
   <journal-id journal-id-type="pmc">BMJ</journal-id>
   <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">BR MED J</journal-id>
   <issn>0959-8138</issn>
   <publisher>
    <publisher-name>British Medical Journal</publisher-name>
   </publisher>
  </journal-meta>
  <article-meta>
   <article-id pub-id-type="pmid">10092260</article-id>
   <title-group>
    <article-title>Systematic review of day hospital
     care for elderly people</article-title>
   </title-group>
   <contrib-group>...</contrib-group>
   <aff id="StLukes">...</aff>
   <pub-date publication-format="print" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="1999-03-27">
    ...</pub-date>
   ...
  </article-meta>
 </front>
 ...
</article>
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