I thought I'd fixed this before. There are three cases where more than one text/text element appears in a page: 1) pages where material is to appear on more than one page (i.e. have the rend=multi attribute) 2) pages containing a list of text extracts - e.g. the literary references pages - where we want on the page an explicit delimiter to indicate end of one snippet and start of next 3) pages containing contributions by more than one author - e.g. Cheapside - where we do not want the explicit delimiter to appear between author contributions. To distinguish case 2 from case 3, I added this test in render_page.xsl <xsl:if test="not(child::tei:back)"> <p>[...]</p> </xsl:if>