Create a Contact with Google Contacts API 3

I am having problems creating a contact record using the Google Contacts API. I am using PHP for this. My problem is that I can create an entry in users contacts, but there is no set of names. The only field that needs to be set is the email address. For example, this is the XML I'm sending:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<atom:entry xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005">
  <gd:name>
    <gd:givenName>John</gd:givenName>
    <gd:familyName>Smith</gd:familyName>
    <gd:fullName>John Smith</gd:fullName>
  </gd:name>
  <gd:email address="john@smith.com" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#home"/>
</atom:entry>

      

        
        
        
      

    

And here's what comes back:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:batch="http://schemas.google.com/gdata/batch" xmlns:gContact="http://schemas.google.com/contact/2008" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005">
<id>http://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/user@domain/base/xyz123</id>
<updated>2015-05-13T08:30:56.531Z</updated>
<category scheme="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind" term="http://schemas.google.com/contact/2008#contact"/>
<title type="text"/>
<link rel="http://schemas.google.com/contacts/2008/rel#edit-photo" type="image/*" href="https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/photos/media/user@domain/xyz123/abc987"/>
<link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/user@domain/xyz123"/>
<link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/user@domain/xyz123/1431505856531001"/>
<gd:email rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#home" address="john@smith.com"/>
</entry>

      

        
        
        
      

    

Note that "title" is empty when returned:

<title type="text"/>

      

        
        
        
      

    

What am I missing?

Edit

To summarize - I can create a contact record. I have set the givenName, familyName, fullName and email to the XML I message as shown in the first block of code. The contact was successfully created, but only the email is saved. GivenName, FamilyName and FullName are not set. The desired behavior would be to create a contact that contains a givenName, familyName, fullName and email.

solved

To set the title, you must add an xml element:

<atom:title>John Smith</atom:title>

      

        
        
        
      

    

I mistakenly assumed that the given name and surname name_Name and fullName were given a title. So my original XML request would look like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<atom:entry xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005">
  <atom:title>John Smith</atom:title>
  <gd:name>
    <gd:givenName>John</gd:givenName>
    <gd:familyName>Smith</gd:familyName>
    <gd:fullName>John Smith</gd:fullName>
  </gd:name>
  <gd:email address="john@smith.com" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#home"/>
</atom:entry>