- From: Jasper Bryant-Greene <jasper@bryant-greene.name>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 22:50:52 +1200
- To: Laurens Holst <lholst@students.cs.uu.nl>
- CC: www-html@w3.org
Laurens Holst wrote: > I think it’s perfectly possible to use <?php ?> in a way that is legal > to XML processors, as long as you don’t use it in attributes and avoid > writing down the ‘?>’ sequence except when exiting the processing > instruction (e.g. the echo then has to be echo '?'.'>', or using an > escape code for the ? or the >). But the PHP parser also accepts it in > places not legal to XML. This is because it simply uses <?php ?> as delimiters, it's effectively "dumb" to the idea of an XML PI, even though it uses a similar syntax for convenience. I can't think of a situation when it would matter, anyway, since PHP would almost always be parsed before any XML processors got the document. Jasper
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