note 39656 deleted from language.basic-syntax by danbrown

Note Submitter: TarquinWJ ---- Not spotted any messages like this one - delete it if there was one. My hosting service allows <? and ?>, but I like to use valid XHTML, so I came up with this simple solution: It is possible to use the short tags <? ?> with XHTML or XML documents. The only problem is that X(HT)ML requires a declaration using <? and ?> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> To avoid the problem, simply replace <? with <<? ?>? and ?> with ?<? ?>> <<? ?>?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?<? ?>> This inserts a blank piece of PHP in between the < and ?, and when parsed will output the regular tag <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>