- From: Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:07:12 +0200
- To: Kornel <kornel@geekhood.net>
- CC: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>, public-html@w3.org
Kornel On 09-07-22 15.02: > On 22 Jul 2009, at 09:47, Daniel Glazman wrote: >> Toby A Inkster wrote: >> >>> <p class="<?php echo 'foo';?>"> >>> Invalid in both XHTML and HTML, but perfectly legal PHP. PHP's start >>> and end markers are not real XML processing instructions. They just >>> look a bit like them. >> >> They are real processing instructions and the current PHP start marker >> <?php was not the one early versions of PHP used. It was changed to >> match SGML/XML PIs to allow editability in markup editors and wysiwyg >> editors. >> >> Breaking that compatibility is, IMHO, a serious error. > > They are not. They are just roughly similar and compatible only in most > basic cases. No one is disputing that one may place things between "<?php" and "?>" that breaks the syntax expectations of a PI. [...] > Validation of PHP files cannot work reliably, it never did, and it would > be disservice to authors to pretend otherwise. If the coding style is to produce valid PIs, then it is a disservice to prevent validation. > If you want to ensure that code PHP generates is valid/well-formed, I > suggest using templating engine for PHP that doesn't break XML syntax, > for example PHPTAL or OPT 2.0. The unparsed PHPTAL and OPT 2.0 syntax is not valid HTML 5. -- leif halvard silli
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