PHP Language - Re: The Dark Side of short tags (Was: nOOb question...)

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Re: The Dark Side of short tags (Was: nOOb question...)

Dustin

2005-08-31, 6:55 pm

Kimmo Laine wrote:
> "ZeldorBlat" <zeldorblat@gmail.com> kirjoitti
> viestissä:1125496435.748162.26960@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
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> They are bad, at least if you're writing (or trying to write) xhtml
> compatible code. There you need the xml declaration row <?xml version="1.0"
> encoding="UTF-8"?>. If short tags are on, and the xml declaration is in a
> php file, it's concidered as php. And since 'xml version="1.0"
> encoding="UTF-8"' makes no sense in php, it raises an error. I've done a few
> times so that I echo the xml tag , ie <?= '<?xml version="1.0"
> encoding="UTF-8"?>' ?>, but that again is bad practise. It would be better
> to leave short tags out and write proper code.
>

Well maybe xhtml standards should be more considerate of php short tag
users! ;)

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