Documentation: TITLE Tag Merging

Concatenated Relationships

The value of each TITLE tag in a resource document, if set, is prepended to the TITLE of its Master Page with a space-dash-space sequence (" - ") between each TITLE resulting in a specific-to-general TITLE order (in other words, the Master Page's TITLE, if set, is always added to the right). Omitting either TITLE is allowed and will result in the prevailing TITLE becoming the final TITLE.

This effect is propagated along an entire chain of Master Pages, if such a chain is created, with each successive Master Page's TITLE (if set) being appended to the end of the current TITLE.

Examples

  1. Resource document and Master Page both have TITLE set:
    <TITLE>Document</TITLE>
    + <TITLE>Master</TITLE>
    = <TITLE>Document - Master</TITLE>
  2. Resource document does not have a TITLE but the Master Page does:
    <TITLE></TITLE>
    + <TITLE>Master</TITLE>
    = <TITLE>Master</TITLE>
  3. Resource document has a TITLE but the Master Page does not:
    <TITLE>Document</TITLE>
    + <TITLE></TITLE>
    = <TITLE>Document</TITLE>
  4. Neither the resource document nor the Master Page has a TITLE set:
    <TITLE></TITLE>
    + <TITLE></TITLE>
    = <TITLE></TITLE>
  5. Resource document, its Master Page, and that Master Page's chained Master Page all have TITLE set (ad infinitum):
    <TITLE>Document</TITLE>
    + <TITLE>Immediate Master</TITLE>
    + <TITLE>Chained Master</TITLE>
    = <TITLE>Document - Immediate Master - Chained Master</TITLE>