How can I pass $title a node variable to html.tpl.php?

Question

I'm looking to use the variable $title in my html.tpl.php file. How can I do this?

I would like to just write a bit of php like so:

<?php print $title ?>

So is a preprocess function needed? TPLNAME_preprocess_html() { ??? something like that?

I would like to reference this question here which got me thinking, what is the proper way?

Helpful Question That I Saw

Answer 1

// template.php
function THEMENAME_preprocess_html(&$vars) {
  $vars['title'] = 'my title';
}

// html.tpl.php
echo $title;

http://drupal.org/node/223430

Answer 2

If you are wanting $title to be the node title of the current page (if it is a node page), which you mentioned in a comment above, you can do this in your theme's template.php:

/**
 * Override or insert variables into the html templates.
 */
function THEMENAME_preprocess_html(&$vars) {
  if ($node = menu_get_object()) {
    $vars['title'] = check_plain($node->title);
  }
}