Re: Re: Is it true that short_open_tag is deprecated in PHP 6?

Right, but at the moment something like: <?$this->that;?> ... works. i.e. no whitespace after the opening tag. Changing this would most likely break a fair amount of code. Glen. Evert | Filemobile wrote: > > On 13-Apr-09, at 4:06 PM, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > >> Hi! >> >>> Thats because with short_open_tags on, you need to use: >>> <?php echo('<?xml ... ?>'); ?> >> >> It's a pretty small use case (that's a problem only if you have xml >> documents which has to have php code which has to be inlined) and as >> you see, can be easily handled. I think that should not make whole >> very useful syntax deprecated. > > I think the parser should look ahead and check for something like : > > /<?(php|[\w]) > > (either <?php or <? + linebreaks/whitespace). > > Evert