XML:TitleMerge

Introduction

The TitleMerge submission merges 2 or more titles into a single title.

Required Tags

The submission contains two required tags:

• KeepId - Specifies which title record to retain. All others will be discarded after the merge.
• DropId - Specifies which title to drop. Multiple DropIds may be included in a single submission.

Optional Tags

The TitleMerge submission also supports a number of optional tags. These tags should be used whenever a particular field differs between the merged titles. Each used tag refers to a title record number. When the submission is integrated, the value associated with the named record will be retained. For instance, say there are 3 titles being merged which have copyright years of 1952, 1953, and 1980. A Year merge tag is generated which selects the record associated with the year 1952. When the submission is integrated, if the retained title record has a year value other than 1952, then that value will be copied into the retained record. Note that the tags contain only record numbers; they do not contain data values.

The following section describes the tags that are supported in the metadata section. Refer to Editing:Merging_Titles for more detailed information on data entry:

• Title - Record number with the desired title.
• Author - Record number with the desired authors.
• Year - Record number with the desired copyright year.
• TitleType - Record number with the desired entry type.
• Series - Record number with the desired series name.
• Seriesnum - Record number with the desired series number.
• Storylen - Record number with the desired length.
• Language - Record number with the desired language.
• Synopsis - Record number with the desired synopsis.
• Note - Record number with the desired note.
• Parent - Record number with the desired parent (for variant titles).

Example

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
 <IsfdbSubmission>
   <TitleMerge>
     <KeepId>7287</KeepId>
     <DropId>170262</DropId>
     <Title>7287</Title>
     <Language>170262</Language>
     <Year>7287</Year>
     <Series>7287</Series>
     <Seriesnum>7287</Seriesnum>
   </TitleMerge>
 </IsfdbSubmission>