Re: short_open_tag
| From: | Pierre Joye | Date: | Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:17:52 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: short_open_tag | ||
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On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 9:05 PM, Stanislav Malyshev <stas@zend.com> wrote:
> > The main reason is that they are not valid processing instructions.
> > See http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-pi
>
> Great, they are also probably not valid S-expressions and not valid
> phrases in Mandarin. Why they are bad because of that? Is there any
> requirement for them to be?
PHP works more and more in a multi cultural environment (php, jsp,
xml, etc.). One of the goals of a standard is to avoid conflicts,
buggy behavior or system specific features. PHP works with XML in many
cases, xhtml growing usage is one good example. I'm very surprised to
have to discuss this problem once again in this list.
Cheers,
--
Pierre
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