Re: short_open_tag

On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Andi Gutmans wrote: > At 01:09 AM 10/18/2002 +0200, Zeev Suraski wrote: > >At 18:49 17/10/2002, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > >><?xml ()?> has whitespace. > > > >And I personally think it's a bit pushing it. How likely is it for > >someone to have a function called xml(), and then call it without a space > >from the <? tag, and then add a space before the parentheses? I think we > >can safely ignore that one... > > I don't see why it's such a big deal for people who are creating xml to > turn-off short tags? The big deal is not really XML. It is XHTML and authoring tools that try to be too smart and stick an XML character encoding tag at the top of a file automatically. -Rasmus