[thelist] Re: XML, anyone? with without PHP?

[Samir M. Nassar]

Carol.

<? ... ?> is not a problem in itself for XHTML. Rather the problem is
with the server usually as it parses the information.

As I understand it <? ... ?> is used for scripts, like PHP and XML, in
fact, I believe that <? ... ?> is the accepted way of embedding scripts
as per the W3C. So far no problem, right? Wrong.

Some admins configure their servers to parse <? ... ?> as PHP only. This
is usually done for lazy designers I think who can't be bothered to use
the long form: <?php ... ?> or <?xml ... ?>. So if you have <?xml ...?>
in your markup when the server only wants to parse <? ...?> as PHP it
chokes.

I had that problem, and I believe it was explained to me on this list.
;-)

In any case, you should be just fine embedding PHP in XHTML, just make
sure you use the long forms just in case the server is configured funny.


Samir M. Nassar
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