Frank ---

I have been **thinking** of signing out Robert Louis Stevenson's "The
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", but have been short of free time.

This text has a property I have not seen in other Gutenberg documents - page
numbers.

This Gutenberg ASCII transcription appears to have the page numbers of the
orginal source publication. The bookfrag.dtd has an element <page> which
appears to be for page header related information or some other page related
info, since it is not a container for paragraphs etc., but I am not sure it
is suited for page numbers. I think it would be helpful at some point to
have some additional description of the elements in the DTD

This is an editorial question. Page numbers on the Web are not really
necessary yet, and printing an XML file in a publishing system, or having
CSS eventually paginate, would likely renumber pages depending on the final
target medium,  but I feel altering the text also removes some information,
such as how the source book or magazine was orginally paged.

Can an element <pagenum> or <origpagenum> be added to the bookfrag DTD to
cover this situtation, or shall I just make a custom extended DTD just for
this situation, or eliminate the numbers from the text? I think it would
better to not have a proliferation of DTDs. If we used <origpagenum> this
would retain the info but could be surpressed in CSS so it wouldn't show and
allow an XML system to generate appropriate page numbers for other kinds of
presentation systems using another method. This would also free <pagenum>
for use with a current format system, if someone wanted to use it.

Terence de Giere
Human Factors International, Inc.

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