At 20:52 26/04/2002, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> > <?php if ($foo > $bar)
> > ...
> > ?>
> >
> > Is this valid XML?
>
>No, this is technically invalid XML.  You would have to write it as:
>
>   <?php if ($foo &gt; $bar)

Erm, but that won't work :)

>But sheez... That's just way too ugly, you can work around it and there
>are other examples out there of people breaking this rule. Doing <?php= is
>a much more flagrant violation in my opinion.

Look, I'm not trying to argue in favour of <?php= or anything.  I'm just 
going back to this discussion from 5 years ago, and pointing out that I 
still don't quite understand why we cared about XML compliance, when a 
language such as PHP cannot be XML compliant no matter what :)

Zeev


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