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by mdaniel 5590 days ago
No, because it enables the user-agent to paginate content before the entire page has even loaded.

And presumably the page author knows a priori what the header and footer for the table are going to be, so why not transmit that information to the user-agent as soon as possible?

If you examine XSL-FO, they have similar constructs for what I am guessing are similar reasons.

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Hmmm... makes sense. Thanks!