can an XML element have textNode AND childelements?

Question

Is SomeText ok in XML node, if there are Childnodes? Is the below code valid?

<main att="123">SomeText
    <child>sample</child>
</main>

Would the down-voter care to explain why? This looks like a perfectly fine question to me. — 5gon12eder, Dec 08 '14 at 11:16

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 08 '14 at 11:13

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Whether your example is a valid XML document depends on the Document Type Definition you wish to validate it against. It is well-formed, tough. That is, nothing in the XML specification forbids you to write such documents.

answered Dec 08 '14 at 11:13

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The xml is valid, but json_encode() fails on this. I did a rewrite of the php function [here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27633518/how-to-get-json-from-xml-string) – RJS Dec 26 '14 at 06:18

alampada · Answer 2 · 2014-12-08T11:29:23.387

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Is it possible to have text and child elements, see: http://www.w3schools.com/schema/schema_complex_mixed.asp

It depends on the xsd that you are validating against.

edited Dec 08 '14 at 11:29

answered Dec 08 '14 at 11:15

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can an XML element have textNode AND childelements?

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