#27549 [NEW]: Removing whitespace after closing tag should be optional

From: zizka at seznam dot cz Operating system: All PHP version: 4.3.4 PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description: Removing whitespace after closing tag should be optional Description: ------------ Removing whitespace after closing tag is quite annoying and should be optional. Every webmaster looks into the page code to see what's the problem, and when he drops out of PHP parsing mode with ?> instead of echo()ing, the resulting code is quite awful: <table> <? while(list(,$val)=each($a)){?> <tr><td><?=$val['caption']?></td> <td><?=$val['text']?></td> </tr><?}?> </table> Without this feature, the output would be like this: <table> <tr><td>About PHP</td> <td>PHP's quite good thing, but still can be better</td> </tr> <tr><td>About PHP</td> <td>PHP's quite good thing, but still can be better</td> </tr> </table> But, because of it, instead of such nice code we get: <table> <tr><td>About PHP</td> <td>PHP's quite good thing, but still can be better</td> </tr> <tr><td>About PHP</td> <td>PHP's quite good thing, but still can be better</td> </tr></table> I could come up with better examples, but they would be too complex. But believe me, sometimes I get a line > 2000 characters long! (And adding echo "\n"; is out of question.) Thx -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=27549&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (php4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27549&r=trysnapshot4 Try a CVS snapshot (php5): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27549&r=trysnapshot5 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27549&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27549&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27549&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27549&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27549&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27549&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27549&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27549&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27549&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27549&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27549&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27549&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27549&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27549&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27549&r=float