Re: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8>

On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Doug Essinger-Hileman wrote: > > On 23 Jun 2003 at 13:22, CPT John W. Holmes wrote: > > > The first two characters are opening up a PHP block of code, so you > > get a parse error. Either disable short open tags in php.ini, > > I don't have access to php.ini. Can I do this on a script by script > basis with > > ini_set(short_open_tag, off) No. (btw, be sure to quote your strings). In reading the table found here: http://www.php.net/ini_set You will notice short_open_tag has this level: PHP_INI_SYSTEM|PHP_INI_PERDIR And according to the documentation, most namely the documenation found here: http://www.php.net/configuration.changes It can be set in the following (in Apache) or similar depending your web server: .htaccess php.ini httpd.conf Closest you have is .htaccess But, if you don't want to worry about it, just use echo as someone already suggested, instead of embedding it. Something like: echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8">'; Btw, the question proposed in this thread is also a documented FAQ here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/faq.using.php#faq.using.mixml Regards, Philip