Can a XML element contain text and child elements at the same time?

Question

I was looking at some xml files but didn\'t find the answer to my question: Can a XML element contain text and child elements at the same time?

For example:

Answer 1

Yes. It's called "mixed content".

Answer 2

Yes. A parent node contains zero or more child nodes. Text nodes and element nodes are two kinds of nodes and an element node can have any number of text and/or element child nodes in any order. Schemas might restrict this, though. In fact, the whitespace between element nodes actually forms text node siblings. Usually this whitespace is ignored, though.