Page numbers

When required in the data, capture page numbers using processing instructions (PI) and a page milestone element embedded in the text between the text at the end of one page and that at the start of the next.

<new page>	Used in a manuscript for a page break
<blank>	Used for a blank page

When required in the data, place the processing instruction and milestone together before the content of the next page, in the first available place where a text node is allowed by the DTD.

A page break may not be placed inside a url element. If a URL spans two pages in the printed book, capture the page break PI and milestone element after the closing /url tag.

Page Processing instructions are not needed on A-Z Reference Works content.

Where there is a blank page separating one section from another, place the PI and milestone for the page at the end of the preceding section, in the last available place where a text node is allowed. If the preceding section ends in a bibList element, place them in the last bibItem within the bibList.

The format of the page processing instruction is:

<?Page pageId="1"?>

The milestone element must have an id, a unit, and a num attribute. That value of the unit is 'page' and the value of num is the page number.


      <milestone id="actrade-9780198245353-milestone-1" unit="page" num="1"/>

The milestone is captured immediately after the page processing instruction:


      <?Page pageId="6"?>
      <milestone num="6" unit="page" id="actrade-9780198245353-milestone-110"/>

Capture page breaks that occur within tables in the first text node on each page.

Example of page-number processing-instructions


      <frontMatter>
        <miscMatterGroup><miscMatter id="oso-9780199366606-miscMatter-6">
 <textMatter>
   <p>...end of introduction.<?Page pageId="iv"?>
                             <milestone unit="page" id="oso-9780199366606-milestone-4" num="iv"/>
                         </p>
 </textMatter></miscMatter>
        </miscMatterGroup>
      </frontMatter>
      <mainText>
        <part><titleGroup>
 <title>
   <p><?Page pageId="1"?>
                             <milestone unit="page" id="oso-9780199366606-milestone-5" num="1"/>
                             <enumerator>1</enumerator> First part</p>
 </title></titleGroup><textMatter>
 <!-- Content skipped for brevity --></textMatter>
        </part>
      </mainText>

Further example of page-number processing-instructions


      <row>
        <entry><p>4:34 (38)</p>
        </entry>
        <entry><p>banish them to their couches, and beat them</p>
        </entry>
      </row>
      <row>
        <entry><p><?Page pageId="811"?>
                     <milestone unit="page" id="oso-9780199366606-milestone-811" num="811"/>19:46 (47)</p>
        </entry>
        <entry><p>so forsake me now for some while</p>
        </entry>
      </row>

Example of page-number processing-instructions

Further example of page-number processing-instructions

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