Re: dropping asp_tags in HEAD

Hello David, we're not going to add ini settings just to support worse code. best regards marcus Sunday, April 15, 2007, 8:14:12 AM, you wrote: > I suggest adding a new php.ini option: ignore_xml_tags, default to on, which > would cause the parser to just ignore <?xml .. ?> tags. > -- > // DvDmanDT > mail: dvdmandt¤telia.com > msn: dvdmandt¤hotmail.com > "Bart de Boer" <bart@mediawave.nl> skrev i meddelandet > news:46209A3F.8040701@mediawave.nl... >> >> I think ASP tags should go too... Simply because it's not standards >> compliant and I think it's good if people are forced to make nice >> standards compliant documents... I'd even go so far as to favor dropping >> short tags too... >> >> <? echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" >> ?>\n"; ?> >> >> What a mess!... >> >> >> >> >> Guilherme Blanco wrote: >>> I really can't see a reason to mantain ASP tags. >>> >>> Ok, short tags is good because of <?=$something?>, but it doesn't >>> behavior well with XML documents. So, if your intention is to change >>> short tags to ASP tag in a near future, ok. ASP tags does not mix XML >>> documents. >>> Otherwise, ASP tags is the most useless thing I've ever heard in PHP >>> sphere. I really don't know why wasn't it dropped in PHP5. >>> >>> That's what I think... IMHO. >>> >>> >>> []s, >>> >>> On 4/13/07, Tijnema ! <tijnema@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> On 4/13/07, Richard Lynch <ceo@l-i-e.com> wrote: >>>> > On Fri, April 13, 2007 9:16 am, Tijnema ! wrote: >>>> > > I don't see why you are all against dropping the ASP tags. I see >>>> > > people using ASP & PHP in one script, what would that do? If ASP >>>> > > runs >>>> > > first then there isn't a problem, but if PHP runs first, it would >>>> > > execute the ASP code. >>>> > >>>> > There are actually people running both PHP and ASP in series to >>>> > generate HTML? >>>> > >>>> > If they are, they can turn ASP tags *OFF* in php.ini >>>> > >>>> > And they certainly aren't going to be distributing that setup outside >>>> > their own little world... >>>> >>>> I've seen such code on the net some time ago... >>>> >>>> But should you distribute PHP code with ASP tags? That's not good >>>> either i think. So there's no use of the ASP tags, and they can only >>>> interfere with ASP. Best regards, Marcus