- From: Jasper Bryant-Greene <jasper@bryant-greene.name>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 17:07:43 +1200
- To: Kelly Miller <lightsolphoenix@gmail.com>
- CC: "dagobah1@optonline.net" <dagobah1@optonline.net>, www-html@w3.org
That's correct, it's been around much longer than PHP AFAIK. Also if you turn off short_tags, which is recommended to be off anyway, then you don't even need to echo it. Jasper Kelly Miller wrote: > > ACTUALLY, I believe the <?...?> processing instruction syntax was > present in SGML, which predates XML, PHP, HTML and just about any other > language that might use this syntax. > > Oh, and you can insert the XML prolog in PHP simply by echoing it: > > <?php echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"ISO-8859-1\"?>"; ?> > > dagobah1@optonline.net wrote: > >> >> PHP has been around long before you started working on XML, so don't >> denie you stold their tags. >> >> <? ...... ?> Couldn't you come up with something else? >> >> If a page ends in .php there is absoluty NO WAY to decleare XML with >> your little >> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> tag. >> >> Don't you realize that by doing this, you screwed yourself. Because >> very few people will use that tag, and thus its death will come >> quick. The only pages that can use that tag are pages that end in >> .html or .asp which are the second and their most common extensions. >> .php is quickly becomming number one in the extension that people use >> for their sites. >> >> Now don't brush me off like you did once before when I brought this >> up. You people really need to realize that you aren't the smartest >> people on Earth, and your word isn't law, and you aren't God. >> >> >> P.S. I don't want that moron spartanicus (spartanicus.3@ntlworld.ie) >> to comment, he doesn't know anything. He's just a little sissy punk >> whom can talk big but can't back anything up. >> >> >> >
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