ID:               16838
 Updated by:       [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Reported By:      [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Status:           Open
 Bug Type:         Feature/Change Request
 Operating System: all
 PHP Version:      4.2.0
 New Comment:

This seems extraneous to me.  You can simply echo the one <?xml tag
that is usually needed.  No need to turn off short_tags.  Just do:
<?echo '<?xml ...'?> at the top.


Previous Comments:
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[2002-04-25 20:07:28] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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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