PCDATA

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Parsed Character Data (PCDATA) is a data definition that originated in Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), and is used also in Extensible Markup Language (XML) Document Type Definition (DTD) to designate mixed content XML elements.[1]

## Example

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The following sender-element could be part of an XML-document:

<sender>Anton Smith</sender>

The string "Anton Smith" would be considered as parsed character data.

When declaring document elements. An element declaration employing the #PCDATA content model value does not allow for child elements.[2]

## See also

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* CDATA

## References

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1. ^ Bray, Tim; Paoli, Jean; Sperberg-McQueen, C.; Maler, Eve; Yergeau, François, eds. (2008-11-26), "3.2.2 Mixed Content", Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (5th ed.), World Wide Web Consortium, retrieved 2014-06-08
2. ^ Carey, Patrick, 1961- (2014-11-17). New perspectives on XML: comprehensive. Vodnik, Sasha (3rd ed.). Boston, MA. ISBN 978-1-285-07582-2. OCLC 904969019.`{{cite book}}`: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

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