Re: xml v php question

Larry Garfield wrote: > Disable short tags. > > If short tags are enabled, the PHP parser sees the <? and switches into PHP > mode. It then starts parsing the "xml" and sees that it's not proper PHP, > and freaks out. > > You can: > > a) Use PHP to print out the XML declaration as a string: > <?php print '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>'; > ?> > > b) Disable short tags so that the PHP parser ignores <? and only recognizes > <?php. > > The correct answer is (b). (PHP 6 won't even have short tags, so get used to > not having them.) > Can you find anywhere where this was announced? I don't recall seeing any decision on it. A quick search found several mentions of the devs deciding to keep short tags when going from php 4 to php 5. The php 6 todo list shows that <% will be removed but <? will stay.