Tim Visher writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I noticed over the weekend that the `<title>` tag in an ox-html document is
> populated with HTML when inline formatting like bold or italics is used.
[...]
> Is this something we'd take a patch for?
Thanks for reporting. Is this addressed by the in-progress series at
<https://orgmode.org/list/87o8hwpz34.fsf@gmail.com/>?
IIUC yes. I believe the following section of the diff should address it.
```
+ (let* ((title (org-html-plain-text
+ (org-element-interpret-data (plist-get info :title)) info))
+ ;; Set title to an invisible character instead of leaving it
+ ;; empty, which is invalid.
+ (title (if (org-string-nw-p title) title "‎"))```
If I'm reading the code correctly, `org-html-plain-text` is a specialized form of converting org data into a plain text string with no markup. If I have that correct then I believe you're right.
Is that your read as well?