RE: [PHP-DEV] short_open_tag

> short_open_tags = On > > is leading increasingly to problems if PHP is applied > to XML documents or other documents containing XML > style PIs. The interpreter usually bails out at > <?xml ?> declarations. that is indeed, what Egon Schmid is "preaching" since i know him ;-). Actually everybody - especially if he/she ist working with XML - should know that using short-tags in PHP is not xml-conform. Everybody s h o u l d use it, but why force them? > 1. change php.ini so that by default short_open_tag = Off I think it worked well until now and the developers should not change this one. Many "PHP-Programmers" are using short tags, even though this is IMHO "bad style". But the point is not, what i think is "good style", but what the way, most people are using PHP. To change it now, it would probably crash many scripts (not my ofcourse), especially if you think of all those people, that have no access to their php.ini. People working with XML are often advanced programmers and generally use the "right" style anyway. So why do you want to break many scripts, just for the "small" benefit of some? with best regards, -Wolfgang -- German PHP-Centralpoint Dynamic Web Pages News, Installation, Tutorials, Skripte, Links, GermanManual, Books, BestOfGML, Downloads, FreeProvider, Articles ... http://www.dynamicwebpages.de