Can <subtitle> not be used?

I am wanting to update the (as yet unpublished) operator docbook. I was updating the the installation page to include the following:

[...]
  <section>
   <title>PECL</title>
   <subtitle>Deprecated</subtitle>
[...]

When I built the docs locally I got the following warning:

[18:13:24 - E_USER_WARNING        ] /raid/projects/ext/github.com/jb-lopez/phpdoc/phd/phpdotnet/phd/Format/Abstract/XHTML.php:45
        No mapper found for 'subtitle'

And the output is as unformatted text. The MWE I got to both build and produce the warning was this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<chapter>
 <title>test</title>
 <subtitle>test</subtitle>
</chapter>

I tried with different parent elements not just chapter, but also section, simplesect, and sect1. It just seems that subtitle it not mapped? I can see it here but I haven't grokked this code so I don't know what is looking at this to know how things map.

I also grep'd through the doc-en and doc-base, and it seems like no one is using the <subtitle> tag. Should I avoid it as well?

Reproduce the warning with the minimal chapter XML and local documentation build, then inspect phpdotnet/phd/Format/Abstract/XHTML.php at line 45 and the subtitle mapping referenced in phpdotnet/phd/Package/PEAR/XHTML.php around line 187. Compare the result with existing usage in doc-en and doc-base; done means subtitle behavior is either correctly rendered or its unsupported status is clearly established and documented.