When marking up a printed book and capturing page numbering, local
practice is often to insist that a <pb/> must go inside a <div> of
whatever type or level is used to represent the main document divisions.
For example, assuming a volume of correspondence where letter 150 ends
on verso page 100 and letter 151 starts at the top of recto page 101,
you would code something like
<!--end of letter 150-->
</div>
<div type="letter" id="L151">
<pb n="101">
[etc.]
instead of
<!--end of letter 150-->
</div>
<pb n="101">
<div type="letter" id="L151">
[etc.]
Doing things that way makes it somewhat easier to write code to
determine which document a page break occurs in, or which documents
start or end on a page. But it's certainly not impossible to use XPath
tests so as to deal with a milestone element that can occur at the
boundary between two <div>s as well as inside one.
So: is there any *philosophical* reason not to place a <pb/> between two
<div>s when that corresponds to the page structure?
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David Sewell, Editorial and Technical Manager
Electronic Imprint, The University of Virginia Press
PO Box 400318, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4318 USA
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