At 21:07 26/04/2002, Sterling Hughes wrote: >The whole point of the <?php tag is to allow people to embed commands in >XML documents. When short tags are disabled, commands such as <% echo >'HELLO'; %> don't work. If you allow <?php=?> syntax, it is not valid >XML, which negates the point of having <?php in the first place.
He was wrong about the 2nd example, but I'm pretty sure about his first: <?php if ($foo > $bar) ... ?> Is this valid XML? [I'm not taking sides on whether <?php= should be supported or not] Zeev -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php