Re: <?= and <%= both work, why not <?php=

At 21:07 26/04/2002, Sterling Hughes wrote:

The whole point of the <?php tag is to allow people to embed commands in XML documents. When short tags are disabled, commands such as <% echo 'HELLO'; %> don't work. If you allow <?php=?> syntax, it is not valid XML, which negates the point of having <?php in the first place.

He was wrong about the 2nd example, but I'm pretty sure about his first: <?php if ($foo > $bar) ... ?> Is this valid XML? [I'm not taking sides on whether <?php= should be supported or not] Zeev