note 56517 added to language.basic-syntax

About the XML declaration, I prefer the methods which use echo, like the already provided: <?php echo('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?'.'>'); ?> and <?php echo("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"iso-8859-1\"?>"); ?> However, I am a newbie and test my documents in a Windows PC without PHP so the browser displays the next characters, respectively: '); ?> and "); ?> In order to avoid them, I change the extension of my files from html to xhtml which solves the problem in the first case and produces a XML parsing error in the second; but that error can be avoided too using a space to divide the end tag of the XML declaration: <?php echo("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"iso-8859-1\"? >"); ?> Of course I make the FTP program change the extension of the files from xhtml to php during transfers. ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.basic-syntax.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+56517 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+56517&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+56517&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+56517&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+56517&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: non-english -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+56517&report=yes&reason=non-english Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+56517&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+56517&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php