#44025 [NEW]: It's impossible to print "<" string,

From: gmazzy at gmail dot com Operating system: Windows PHP version: 5.2.5 PHP Bug Type: Scripting Engine problem Bug description: It's impossible to print "<" string, Description: ------------ Hi, I'm running PHP 5.2.5, on Latest Apache alone. I've enable only mysql extension, I've in php.ini short_open_tag = Off, I'd like to output text into xml so when I declare a string "<?xml version=\"1.0\"\x3F>\n"; I've escaped the " by the manual but it's not working, even $xml = "<"; echo $xml; don't works too. Why ? I think that it's a bug. Reproduce code: --------------- <?php include "mysql_login.php"; @mysql_connect($host, $user, $pwd) or die("Could not connect to MySQL server!\n"); @mysql_select_db($db) or die("Could not select database!"); $query = "SELECT * FROM route WHERE linea=8 ORDER BY vertex"; $result = mysql_query($query); $xml = "<?xml version=\"1.0\"\x3F>\n"; echo $xml; ?> Expected result: ---------------- <?xml version="1.0"?> Actual result: -------------- Nothing -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=44025&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 4.4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44025&r=trysnapshot44 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44025&r=trysnapshot52 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44025&r=trysnapshot53 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44025&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44025&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44025&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44025&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44025&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44025&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44025&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44025&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44025&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44025&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44025&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44025&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44025&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44025&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44025&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44025&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44025&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=44025&r=mysqlcfg