Re: [gutvol-d] Goals and scope

As you point out, Now, if you're trying to represent /pages/ as XML container objects then you

do have a problem, because pages and paragraphs are probably not contiguous. But the document structure (paragaphs) and the manifestation structure (paged book) are totally different paradigms, and can't be represented as the same structural object.

Nonetheless, pages are in fact legitimate characteristics of a book. And they can't be accommodated in an XML structure. So instead re use the "pagenum" positional element as a substitute. If you want examples, every html page that is not xhtml-compliant is a legitimate document that hasn't fit the model. They can be forced into the model, but only by changing the document.