I feel I can't disagree with my hero. :) But is that really so?
The XML spec says:
PI ::= '<?' PITarget (S (Char* - (Char* '?>' Char*)))? '?>'
Doesn't Char* mean any char?
All the parsers seem to accept '>' inside PI's without problems too.
Furthermore... PHP may not be the most beautiful of languages... But
that doesn't mean it has to be ugly...
-Bart
Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
PHP was never meant to win any beauty contests, nor to enforce
standards. If you want to take your argument to its logical conclusion
then you have to also take the next step and not allow literal entities
inside the PHP blocks, because that is also not standards compliant.
That means you cannot write:
<?php if($a > 10) foo() ?>
You would have to change it to:
<?php if($a > 10) foo() ?>
And that's just a simple example of that.
-Rasmus
Bart de Boer wrote:
And let me stress that this is something we're *forcing* people to do
when they're on a short tags enabled server... It's not something
they're allowed to do at free will... PHP's convention is currently
responsible for people creating non-standards-compliant documents... And
I think we should take that responsibility and clean up the mess we
made... The XML spec is outside our scope... What's inside <?php tags is
our business...
Tijnema ! wrote:
On 4/14/07, Bart de Boer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think ASP tags should go too... Simply because it's not standards
compliant and I think it's good if people are forced to make nice
standards compliant documents... I'd even go so far as to favor dropping
short tags too...
<? echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" ?>\n"; ?>
What a mess!...
What about the even shorter version:
<?="<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" ?>\n"; ?>
That's real ugly code...
Tijnema
Guilherme Blanco wrote:
I really can't see a reason to mantain ASP tags.
Ok, short tags is good because of <?=$something?>, but it doesn't
behavior well with XML documents. So, if your intention is to change
short tags to ASP tag in a near future, ok. ASP tags does not mix XML
documents.
Otherwise, ASP tags is the most useless thing I've ever heard in PHP
sphere. I really don't know why wasn't it dropped in PHP5.
That's what I think... IMHO.
[]s,
On 4/13/07, Tijnema ! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 4/13/07, Richard Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, April 13, 2007 9:16 am, Tijnema ! wrote:
I don't see why you are all against dropping the ASP tags. I see
people using ASP & PHP in one script, what would that do? If
ASP runs
first then there isn't a problem, but if PHP runs first, it would
execute the ASP code.
There are actually people running both PHP and ASP in series to
generate HTML?
If they are, they can turn ASP tags *OFF* in php.ini
And they certainly aren't going to be distributing that setup
outside
their own little world...
I've seen such code on the net some time ago...
But should you distribute PHP code with ASP tags? That's not good
either i think. So there's no use of the ASP tags, and they can only
interfere with ASP.
Tijnema
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