> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ed Gorski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 28 May 2002 21:53
>
> No, if you use /* ? */ as a comment the parser will skip right over
> it.....if you want to use sample code in your script just use:
>
> /*
> <?
> code here....
> ?>
> */
>
> that'll work fine
hmm, this brings up an interesting point. Whilst this is valid PHP, it is not really
valid HTML and certainly not XML.
Displaying a page which contains a ?> embedded in a quoted string or /* */ comment in
an HTML editor which knows about XML-style <?token syntax, but not PHP specifically,
may result in the PHP block apparently terminating at the embedded ?> -- this happens
in, for example, Dreamweaver 4, which displays a "php", but terminates it at the
*first* occurrence of ?> regardless of where that appears.
The XML syntax specifies that a block starting with <?token consists of any characters
not including ?>, terminating at the first occurrence of ?>. It makes no allowance
for the internal syntax of any such block, so any true XML parser would also terminate
a <?php block at the first ?>, regardless of other context.
It would appear that if PHP wishes to be fully XML-compliant in the future, it
actually needs to change so that ?> terminates a PHP block *regardless of context*.
Whether such a change of behaviour is actually desirable is something the PHP
community will have to decide.
(Incidentally, this mirrors the HTML/JavaScript situation where you *cannot* echo the
string "</script>" in one go as it terminates the <script> block. This why you
sometimes see constructions such as document.write("</"+"script>")!)
Cheers!
Mike
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