From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Operating system: all
PHP version: 4.2.0
PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request
Bug description: PHP short_open_tags and <?xml .. ?>
Hello,
I would like to suggest a small change in PHP's
handling of open tags.
I think it would be diserable to allow the use of the
short tag syntax ('<? ..?>') for documents also
containing <?xml [..] ?> tags. The increasing usage of
XML and especially XHTML (for which the <?xml..?> tag
is of course mandatory) will lead to a growing number
of collisions between PHP's syntax and user's
requirements.
AFAIK the only way for mixing xml-documents with PHP
code is to disable the short_open_tags option in the
php.ini file or make equivalent settings in the
httpd.conf (if using the Apache SAPI).
In my opinion, this is more a workaround than a real
solution. Obviously, it is impossible to include 'old'
code or third-party code which uses short tags and
even more important: not every user has access to the
php.ini file or httpd.conf file to modify the settings
accordingly.
Therefore I would like to propose to change the PHP
language scanner (as found in zend_language_scanner.l)
in a way that the token '<?xml' is not treated as a
PHP opening tag but rather (correctly) recognized as
inline HTML.
It could probably be sufficient to create an additional
rule for the scanner's <INITIAL>-start condition that
would catch the string '<?xml' before it can be
treated as an PHP open tag, e.g.:
<INITIAL>"<?xml" {
zendlval->value.str.val = (char *) estrndup(yytext, yyleng);
zendlval->value.str.len = yyleng;
zendlval->type = IS_STRING;
return T_INLINE_HTML;
}
I'm not sure whether this piece of code really works
or has unwanted side effects etc., but I guess it can put
forward my intention more clearly than more words :-)
Thanks for your attention,
Sascha Loetz
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16838&r=fixedcvs
Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16838&r=alreadyfixed
Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16838&r=needtrace
Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16838&r=oldversion
Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16838&r=support
Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16838&r=notwrong
Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16838&r=notenoughinfo
Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16838&r=submittedtwice
