It would be nice if PHP could not get tripped up by "<?xml" tags when
short_tags is on.
Already included, you may have seen this feature used before, <?php :-)
I gather he meant making the scanner intelligent enough to see that the <? is followed by 'xml' and just ignoring the fact that short open tags is on. I wouldn't expect to see it happen (or want it to), but if he wants it, here's a sloppy implementation:
Index: Zend/zend_language_scanner.l
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RCS file: /repository/ZendEngine2/zend_language_scanner.l,v
retrieving revision 1.131
diff -u -r1.131 zend_language_scanner.l
--- Zend/zend_language_scanner.l 3 Aug 2005 13:30:54 -0000 1.131
+++ Zend/zend_language_scanner.l 27 Aug 2005 21:55:36 -0000
@@ -1379,6 +1379,12 @@
}
}
+<INITIAL>"<?xml"([ \t]|{NEWLINE}) {
+ zendlval->value.str.val = (char *) estrndup(yytext, yyleng);
+ zendlval->value.str.len = yyleng;
+ zendlval->type = IS_STRING;
+ return T_INLINE_HTML;
+}
<INITIAL>"<%="|"<?=" {
if ((yytext[1]=='%' && CG(asp_tags)) || (yytext[1]=='?' && CG(short_tags))) {