Re: PDM Meeting Notes
| From: | Marcus Boerger | Date: | Sun, 27 Nov 2005 10:58:16 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PDM Meeting Notes | ||
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Hello Sara,
Sunday, November 27, 2005, 3:39:40 AM, you wrote:
>> How PHP chokes on <?xml tags when short tags is enabled is compleltely
>> silly. There's a patch here to fix it,
>> http://news.php.net/php.internals/18493, some proof of why
>> it's a problem,
>> http://news.php.net/php.internals/18496, and the
>> "bogus" (yeah, right) bug
>> report, http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=25987.
>>
> As the author of the patch you mentioned, I should reitterate that I don't
> think that it's a *good* fix. Treating <?xml as special is a hack, not a
> broadband solution.
To second this, the xml standard allows any name after '<?' as processing
instruction. Widely in use is for example '<?jsp' and do you want to start
special treatment for java stuff in PHP? ;-)
Best regards,
Marcus