Syd,

        I think a bare <title> will probably suffice in our case, Syd: I've
recursed on this problem too long and have made it needlessly
complicated. The issue developed, I think, out of rendering
concerns--when to italicize a title and when to put it in
quotations--and somewhere along the line the simple idea of <title
type="blah"> (where blah is an element of a controlled vocabulary
derived from, say, the AAT) got lost. (Note I didn't suggest <title
rend="italic">...) Thanks for breaking the loop.

        There still might be room for discussion of a general <object> element
for tagging "things," but I won't start it...

--C

On Feb 19, 2005, at 8:11 AM, Syd Bauman wrote:

>
> * Cliff, I'm gathering that
>      <p><persName key="artist06">Picasso</persName> painted
>         <title>Les Demoiselles d'Avignon</title> in
>         <date value=>1907</date>.</p>
>   is insufficient for your purposes?