Re: short_open_tag
| From: | Kristian Koehntopp | Date: | Tue, 22 Oct 2002 06:54:05 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: short_open_tag | ||
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On Tuesday 22 October 2002 08:13, Terence Kearns wrote:
> I would hate to see PHP's simple but awsome application producing
> capability essentially *crippled* (or at least stifled) when XML becomes
> the norm because inter-application functionality (such as SOAP for only
> *one* example) is essential as the web landscape evolves.
I can see how short_open_tag enabled makes life harder than it should be
for the XML-using PHP-developer. I fail to see how this can happen in a
situation where this developer has no control over the appropriate php.ini
setting, though.
So basically, what PHP does now is unclean, hacky and as usuall correct,
enabling short_open_tag for the great unwashed masses. Those that strive
for lean and clean XML-solutions always can flip the switch, or if they are
of the brighter variety, use a more templatey generation schema that does
not mix XML and PHP in the first place (PEAR::XML_Transformer comes
to mind, if you do not like XSLT).
Kristian