Conditional Page Breaking

Quick tidbit today from Hok Min, the new RTF uber meister. It came out of a question with someone trying to use the 'split-by-page-break' command in a bit of a funky way. They had the following code:

<?if:CF_LPN_FLAG='Y'?> <?split-by-page-break: ?><?end if?>

Its a nice enhancement candidate but its not going to work. We are expecting the split-by-page-break command inside a loop not as part of a condition. Say, you're looping over departments (DEPT) and want a page break when the department changes. You'd have something like

<?for-each:DEPT?>.........<?split-by-page-break:?><?end for-each?>

This would get out engine to insert a page break into the document before the occurrence of a new department. To get the original code above to work you physically need to insert a page break into your template. Kinda screws the WYSIWYG layout a bit but you get the desired functionality i.e. a conditional page break. For a sample RTF and XML click here