<pb>

<pb> (page break) marks the boundary between one page of a text and the next in a standard reference system. 3.10.3 Milestone Elements
Modulecore — 3 Elements Available in All TEI Documents
Attributes att.typed (@type, @subtype) att.sourced (@ed)
Used by
model.milestoneLike
May containEmpty element
Declaration

<rng:element name="pb">
<rng:ref name="att.global.attributes"/>
<rng:ref name="att.typed.attributes"/>
<rng:ref name="att.sourced.attributes"/>
<rng:empty/>
</rng:element>
element pb
{
   att.global.attributes,
   att.typed.attributes,
   att.sourced.attributes,
   empty
}
Example

Page numbers may vary in different editions of a text.

<p> ... <pb n="145" ed="ed2"/>
<!-- Page 145 in edition "ed2" starts here --> ... <pb n="283" ed="ed1"/>
<!-- Page 283 in edition "ed1" starts here--> ... </p>
Example

A page break may be associated with a facsimile image of the page it introduces by means of the facs attribute

<TEI>
 <teiHeader>
<!--...-->
 </teiHeader>
 <text>
  <pb n="1" facs="page1.png"/>
<!-- page1.png contains an image of the page; the text it contains is encoded here -->
  <pb n="2" facs="page2.png"/>
<!-- similarly, for page 2 -->
 </text>
</TEI>
Note
By convention, pb elements should appear at the start of the page to which they refer. The global n attribute indicates the number or other value associated with the page which follows. This will normally be the page number or signature printed on it, since the physical sequence number is implicit in the presence of the pb element itself.
The type attribute may be used to characterize the page break in any respect, for example as word-breaking or not.