It's my understanding that whitespace is ignored. I could be wrong here,
though.
--Shawn
Toby Butzon wrote:
>
> Has using <?[space] instead of just <? as the short tag been discussed?
>
> --Toby
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Alexander Wagner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 4:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [PHP] <? PHP vs. <?
>
> > On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 10:02:42PM +0100, Alexander Wagner wrote:
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > > <? short open tag for PHP
> > > > <?php open tag for PHP
> > > > <?xml open tag for XML
> > > >
> > > > And for all three cases the closing tag is ?>.
> > >
> > > Wasn't there a thread on PHP-DEV about the PHP-parser mistaking <?xml
> for a
> > > short-Tag (for <?xml would be valid PHP like <?echo $var?>).
> > >
> > > Got my point?
> >
> > No, there was a discussion if we should disable the short open tag (<?)
> in
> > php.ini by default. But that would break the most PHP scripts. But anyway
> > you should use the always allowed long open tag for portable code and the
> > benefit of it would be, you can mix PHP with XML. Another point is, if
> you
> > move your scripts to a ISP who have disabled short open tags, your
> scripts
> > wouldn't work anymore. The normal open tag was discussed in 1997 and was
> > choosen with XML in mind.
> >
> > -Egon
> >
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