Why this XML is valid?

Question

I checked in several validators this xml:

<root>
  <tag>text</tag>even more text
</root>

It is valid. Can somebody please explain what is "even more text" String from example, and maybe refer me to some docs.

Answer 1

It is a piece of character data (just like the other piece of text inside the tag element).

Unless a DTD/Schema/etc says otherwise, any element may contain character data.