As you know, the "<?" tag is also used by PHP (in its default short tag mode), so Rivet is not unique in choosing it. In any case, the choice was already made for the project long ago.
You can also compile Rivet to use different tags if you really want to make your configuration even more non-standard... :) -DSTART_TAG='"<?"' -DEND_TAG='"?>"' On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 11:08 PM, Nagarajan Chinnasamy < [email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Massimo & Jeff. > > However, from a user's perspective, my take on this issue is that > Rivet should not hijack the entire "<?" tag to itself, especially when > "<?xml" is a widely-used standard practice. Even before its sent to tcl > interpretter, why not just emit the whole tag when its not recognized by > rivet? As it was suggested, having a "<?rivet" tag may also help. > > This point leads me to the imagination of having a template that has all > different things embedded (xml, tcl code, php code etc.). This may need a > super-template-processing-module as an apache module that dispatches a > <?xxx block to the right template-processing-module based on configuration > directives. > > Best Regards, > Nagu. > > > > On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 5:13 AM, Jeff Lawson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> If you need to output the XML declaration, you can output it with enough >> escaping: >> >> <?= "\<\?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"\?\>" ?> >> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" >> >> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/**DTD/xhtml11.dtd<http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd> >> [1]"> >> ... >> >> I agree that it is a little bit of a pain to do, but PHP has the same >> trouble with that character sequence and requires an equivalent workaround. >> >> >> >> On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Massimo Manghi <[email protected] >> > wrote: >> >>> >>> no way, the <? sequence invariably is parsed by the Rivet parser as the >>> beginning of a Tcl script section embedded in the template. You have to >>> remove it. >>> >>> Years ago someone suggested to support a different style of embedding >>> using <?rivet ...?> as tag for the specific reason of not messing up with >>> XML files. The proposal was filed as as bug #5553, it was acknowledged as >>> such, but was closed as 'wontfix' anyway. Time for resuming this issue? >>> >>> regards >>> >>> -- Massimo >>> >>> >>> On 2012-07-22 20:05, Nagarajan Chinnasamy wrote: >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> The "<?xml" tag that is part of a simple xhtml document (saved as .rvt >>>> template) I generated from Amaya W3Cs editor throws error when >>>> browsed: >>>> >>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> >>>>> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" >>>>> >>>>> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/**DTD/xhtml11.dtd<http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd>[1]"> >>>>> <html >>>>> xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/**xhtml<http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml>[2]"> >>>>> >>>>> <head> >>>>> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; >>>>> charset=UTF-8" /> >>>>> <title>My First RVT</title> >>>>> <meta name="generator" content="Amaya, see >>>>> http://www.w3.org/Amaya/ [3]" /> >>>>> >>>>> </head> >>>>> <body> >>>>> <h1>My First RVT</h1> >>>>> </body> >>>>> </html> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> ------------------------------**------------------------------** >>> --------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: >>> rivet-dev-unsubscribe@tcl.**apache.org<[email protected]> >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>> >>> >> >
