XML Companion, The, Third Edition

Multiple titles

It can be very useful to attach a title to each participating resource when these resources are not mentioned individually in the document text. It is also possible to give each resource multiple titles.

Titles as selection text

In the example above, each linked resource is referred to in the text, and these references are treated as labels by enclosing them in LocalResource and RemoteResource elements. Typically, users would follow a specific link simply by selecting the appropriate reference text. But this approach cannot work when one or more of the targeted resources is not mentioned in the text at all. The Title attribute can be used to overcome this problem:

 <para>... and the quote 'not tonight Josephine' is attributed ...