It's not only because of xml stuff but also because of the portability reasons..not everyone has short-tags enabled.
Would it be that most of the people who have them enabled do that just because <?php= doesn't work..? +1 for <?php= if those short-tags are deprecated. :) --Jani On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Edin Kadribasic wrote: >> > Combine that with incompatibility of PHP's short open tag with XML, and >the >> > reason for having <?php= becomes clearer. >> >> As Rasmus is probably tired of pointing out, this isn't much of an >argument. >> This: >> >> if ($i < 4) { >> ... >> >> is incompatible with XML (it'd have to be if ($i < 4) ...) > >That's not what I'm talking about. Last time I tried > ><?xml ... > >with short open tag enabled, PHP gave me parse error. > >Edin > > > -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]