As you point out,<div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<span style>Now, if you&#39;re trying to represent /pages/ as XML container objects then you<br></span><span style>do have a problem, because pages and paragraphs are probably not contiguous.<br></span><span style>But the document structure (paragaphs) and the manifestation structure (paged<br>
</span><span style>book) are totally different paradigms, and can&#39;t be represented as the same<br></span><span style>structural object.</span> </blockquote><div><br></div><div>Nonetheless, pages are in fact legitimate characteristics of a book. And they can&#39;t</div>
<div>be accommodated in an XML structure. So instead re use the &quot;pagenum&quot; positional</div><div>element as a substitute.</div><div><br></div><div>If you want examples, every html page that is not xhtml-compliant is a legitimate</div>
<div>document that hasn&#39;t fit the model. They can be forced into the model, but only</div><div>by changing the document.</div><div> </div>