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.
Example
The following sender-element could be part of an XML-document:
The string "Anton Smith" would be considered as parsed character data.
References
PCDATA Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA