Basic XML/DTD design/structure validity.

I would like some clarification on valid XML structure - is it valid to have an XML element content both CDATA & other elements? I noticed that by using the keyword ANY in my DTD, that the SAX parser that I'm using seems to accept the following -
<firstElement att="1">
Some character values.
<secondElement att="2"/>
</firstElement>
However, is this a poor design choice? I have made several attempts to read up on DTD/XML structure and have not found anything which explains whether that structure/approach is valid or not.
Many thanks!
~ RomT

Yes, you can do that. It's called "mixed content" in the markup biz. And as you suspect, it's not the greatest design choice. No doubt there are uses for it -- for example if you have a text string and you want to mark off pieces of it as being bold or italic -- but you should probably try to avoid it if possible.

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import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.SAXParseException;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;
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