sorry, there's no way to do that currently. The problem is that in order to render the title (as well as any of the other data elements) and be able to apply attributes to it such as class, width, etc.  the rendering engine creates a dynamic control, and then injects the control into the web page. So the Title element is actually rendered as a dynamic asp:Label control. ( or an asp:LinkButton if the Download attribute is set for the Title object ), then the cssclass is applied. When asp.net renders the control it automatically wraps the control in a span so that it can apply the styles to the content.

If you're up to code changes, you'd have to add another Token that would simply inject a literal into the HTML, for example... in Repository.ascx.vb, find the lstObject_ItemDataBound() function, then find the case statement for rendering the "TITLE" token. Add a new Case statement...

Then, in your template, use the new [RAWTITLE] token instead of the [TITLE] token, like this...