#25987 [Bgs]: php and xml tag confusion

ID: 25987 User updated by: tkwright_233 at hotmail dot com Reported By: tkwright_233 at hotmail dot com Status: Bogus Bug Type: Scripting Engine problem Operating System: * PHP Version: * New Comment: what just happened? it appears some comments were lost(about 2-4). __________ Anyway, it DOES know the diffrence of '<?=' from '<?'. so why can't it detect the diffrence of '<?' from '<?xml'? And, according to my brain, and museum.php.net, the deafult opining tag was changed from '<?' to <?php' partially for this reason(and the closing tag from '>' to '?>'), from v.2 to v.4 . Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-10-26 15:24:32] gschlossnagle@php.net Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php It does recognize the difference, if you disable short_tags, which you should for exactly this reason. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-10-25 15:18:05] helly@php.net Short tags = '<?'. That matches '<?php' as well as '<?=' or '<?xml'. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-10-25 14:13:23] tkwright_233 at hotmail dot com Description: ------------ when an xml 'starting' tag is placed on an document, php confuses it with its opining and closing tag. it confuses its closing tag with xml end of the tag, and php confuses the open tag for php with the start of the tag declaring an xml document. Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in c:/apache/htdocs/xml.php on line 1 currently, the workaround is: <?php echo'<'.'?'.'x'.'m'.'l vers'.'ion="1'.'.'.'0'.'" en'.'codi'.'ng="UT'.'F-8'.'"'.'?'.'>'."\n";?> Reproduce code: --------------- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Expected result: ---------------- [no error],rest of page Actual result: -------------- Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in c:/apache/htdocs/xml.php on line 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=25987&edit=1