> Since there are no drawbacks at all to the <?xml detection, and since it > does cover a great deal of the problem (taking into account the very > limited scope of the problem), I don't see a good reason not to add > it. Rasmus put it very well in one of his recent letters - PHP is not a > purists' language, complex problem sometimes require 'ugly' solutions...
Something else to aid the writing of portable scripts is to allow the setting of short_open_tag from the script with ini_set(), for either subsequent code, or subsequently included files. -- Richard Heyes V-webmail - http://www.v-webmail.co.uk -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
