At 18:44 27/04/2002, Stig S. Bakken wrote: >On Sat, 2002-04-27 at 03:30, Zeev Suraski wrote: > > At 03:18 27/04/2002, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > >It looks like we can. I was assuming the SGML characteristics for XML and > > >it looks like I was wrong. A '>' is ok inside the <?php ?> tags. > > > > Ok, so that's actually useful. But it sounds odd - XML is not SGML > compliant? > >You should know about SGML that it can be configured beyond belief, >through the "SGML declaration". You can change what characters in a >document are valid, what character sequences should be used to delimit >tags and almost everything else about the format. Different DTDs can be >used with different SGML declarations, XML is used with one (try "locate >xml.dcl"). This generality is why XML came to be: writing a >fully-featured SGML parser required bat wings, toad spit and a black >cauldron.
I knew everything you said, except for the fact you can configure which characters are valid and which aren't :) Thanks, Zeev -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
