In what editor or validation environment are you working? Text is allowed 
as a child of p. You should not be getting an error. What is the specific 
error message you are getting? FWIW, this is valid for me in oXygen:

<biogHist>
     <p>text</p>
</biogHist>

as is this:

<biogHist>
     <p>text <span>text</span></p>
</biogHist>

/Terry

  On Mon, 15 Aug 2011, Michele R Combs 
wrote:

> Hi guys --
>
> I'm creating some sample EAC records using the XSD schema from the 
> website (http://eac.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/schema/cpf.xsd ).  I'm 
> working on the bioghist, and it won't let me put text in a p element. 
> It insists text is not allowed there and I must insert a <span> element 
> to contain text.  The tag description says that the <p> element is 
> allowed to contain text 
> (http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/eac/cpf/tagLibrary/cpfTagLibrary.html#d1e5693 
> ).  Perhaps the description is not up to date?  I know mixed content is 
> frowned upon...
>
> If somebody could confirm that this is correct and not an error in the schema that would be great.
>
> Thanks --
>
> Michele
>
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> Librarian for Manuscripts and Archives Processing
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> Syracuse University
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Terry Catapano
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Columbia University Libraries Digital Program
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