Yeah, there has been a huge change. A good chunk of that change is XML.
XML as "parsing XML and working with DOM", not XML as "putting XML through PHP parser". It is very important to understand that no short tags would ever cause you any problems with any XML *unless* you put that XML through PHP parser - which having DOM, SimpleXML, etc. isn't really that needed. Less then ever, I'd say.
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