RE: document construction from PSVI and multiple children

> in the DM spec, 4.2 Documents, it states that a document node 
> may have more than 
> one element node in its children. About a page below, it 
> describes how to map a 
> PSVI to a Document in the DM using amongst other things the 
> children PSVI property.
> 
> I was under the impression that the PSVI only could have a 
> single element node 
> in its children, and thus that a Document with multiple 
> children could only be 
> obtained through synthetic means, or with a lax PSVI that 
> would tolerate that 
> condition. I could be totally wrong here of course since it 
> is from vague 
> memory, but I could find nothing to either prove or disprove this.
> 

You are correct, a document with multiple children will not be produced by
the PSVI -> data model mapping, but it can be produced by other methods of
constructing trees, for example as the output from an XSLT transformation.

Michael Kay