Hi Sarah,

ehm ... such a specification 

<!ELEMENT option (#PCDATA | span)*>

would be private - no browser would accept this.

Its possible to use the XHtml1.1-specification (or every other spec) 
and add own additional definitions.

Reading your sentence in your first mail

>I cannot seem to find any reference to whether the
> following is possible

you may want something which is part of the standard, not a private 
extension.

And the standard says

<!ELEMENT option (#PCDATA)>

so no inner element is allowed.

There are two other solutions. First use unicode with special small 
pictures, look at 

http://www.sql-und-xml.de/unicode-database/miscellaneous-symbols.html

All symbols of version 2.1 are shown in standard-browsers.

Second it's possible and valide to create a javascript: When changing 
the value of the select-list, a new picture is shown.

I created a small sample, look at my domain http://www.sql-und-
xml.de/ and add i-javascript.html

(I do not want too link directly because this is no official page).

At the end I added a small sample. Changing the value in the list 
shows a picture of the domain.


Best Regards
Juergen Auer
http://www.sql-und-xml.de/
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