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So I’m doing this XML to wordML conversion using XSLT and there is this annoying blank page at the end of my document.  My code looks like this:

<w:body>
   <wx:sect>
      <w:p>
         <w:pPr>
            <w:sectPr>
               <w:type w:val="continuous"/>
            </w:sectPr>
         </w:pPr>
         <w:r>
            <w:t>section 1</w:t>
         </w:r>
      </w:p>
   </wx:sect>
   <wx:sect>
      <w:p>
         <w:pPr>
            <w:sectPr>
               <w:type w:val="continuous"/>
            </w:sectPr>
         </w:pPr>
         <w:r>
            <w:t>section 2</w:t>
         </w:r>
      </w:p>
   </wx:sect>
</w:body>

However, all you have to do to avoid the blank page is move the section formatting information from inside the last paragraph of the last section to a sibling node next to the last paragraph node.

<w:body>
   <wx:sect>
      <w:p>
         <w:pPr>
            <w:sectPr>
               <w:type w:val="continuous"/>
            </w:sectPr>
         </w:pPr>
         <w:r>
            <w:t>section 1</w:t>
         </w:r>
      </w:p>
   </wx:sect>
   <wx:sect>
      <w:p>
         <w:pPr>
         </w:pPr>
         <w:r>
            <w:t>section 2</w:t>
         </w:r>
      </w:p>
      <w:sectPr>
         <w:type w:val="continuous"/>
      </w:sectPr>
   </wx:sect>
</w:body>

Tada! Blank page gone and your document still has excellent structure.

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