Thanks this confirms what I thought might be
going on, now the easier said than doen task of
trying to figure out why there is something
empty on the page and also convincing the
customer that all balnk pages may not get the proper text applied.

In the case of my working sample, the page is
being forced by a break page after property.

Can you summarize your use in more detail?  There
are interactions of initial-page-number and the kinds of breaks.

If you were in the middle of an odd page and you
used break-before="odd-page" or break-after="odd-page" you get a blank page.

If you were in the middle of an even page and you
used break-before="even-page" or break-after="even-page" you get a blank
page.

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