[libdb-develop] title and names (mods)

[Bruce D'A. <bd...@fa...>]

There's been an interesting discussion going on at the mods list about 
titles, and how to handle sort order coding.  I think this suggestion 
is a good solution myself.

<titleInfo>
     <title>A shield in space?</title>
     <titleSub>technology, politics, and the strategic defense 
initiative</titleSub>
     <titleSort>shield in space?</titleSort>
     <titleAbbrev>A shield in space?</titleAbbrev>
</titleInfo>

This is in contrast to the current solution:

<titleInfo>
     <nonSort>A</nonSort>
     <title>shield in space?</title>
     <subTitle>technology, politics, and the strategic defense 
initiative</titleSub>
</titleInfo>

An alternate suggestion was to rename title to titleMain, which is also 
good, but breaks existing practice in MODS, something not too important 
for libdb.

The question of names is an even bigger issue, and my earlier post 
reflects my thinking on this (need for articular, for abbreviation 
coding, and an other name element, etc. influenced by Morten's doc).

Bruce