Mixed Content

An element is said to support mixed-content if it can contain both element and text node children.

<test att="whatever">
  <parent att2="value">
  this parent has text <child>and element content</child> 
  so it is said to contain mixed content. 
  </parent>
</test>
				

Mixed content only makes sense for Documentation based XML; XML that is not supposed to be read by a machine but by a human.