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www-html@www10.w3.org
Sat, 3 Jun 95 08:21:42 PDT


> Rather than ask for a new tag, take a page out of the C compiler's
> book and do something like this:

You know, I have no idea what C compiler uses comments for pagination
control.

However, the C standard has a place to hang commands that control
things outside the language - the "#pragma" directive. SGML has a
similar feature - the PI construct. It would turn:

> <!--PAGE-->
> <!--NOPAGE-->
> <!--/NOPAGE-->

into:

<?PAGE>
<?NOPAGE>
<?/NOPAGE>

SGML parsers should pass it through as a PI, where the application can
decide what to do with it. Even the most broken HTML parser should
ignore it as an unrecognized tag.

However, style sheets provide a much cleaner mechanism:

<HR CLASS=PAGE>
<DIV CLASS=NOPAGE>
</DIV>

with an appropriate style sheet that causes the HR to output a page
break instead of ink when printed, and DIV to float to the top of the
next page if it doesn't fit on the current page.

<mike