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 > > ++++++++++++++++ > Michele Combs > Librarian for Manuscripts and Archives Processing > Special Collections Research Center > Syracuse University > 315-443-2081 > [log in to unmask] > > Terry Catapano Special Collections Analyst/Librarian Columbia University Libraries Digital Program 212-854-9942 [log in to unmask]