On Tuesday 22 October 2002 08:13, Terence Kearns wrote: > I would hate to see PHP's simple but awsome application producing > capability essentially *crippled* (or at least stifled) when XML becomes > the norm because inter-application functionality (such as SOAP for only > *one* example) is essential as the web landscape evolves.
I can see how short_open_tag enabled makes life harder than it should be for the XML-using PHP-developer. I fail to see how this can happen in a situation where this developer has no control over the appropriate php.ini setting, though. So basically, what PHP does now is unclean, hacky and as usuall correct, enabling short_open_tag for the great unwashed masses. Those that strive for lean and clean XML-solutions always can flip the switch, or if they are of the brighter variety, use a more templatey generation schema that does not mix XML and PHP in the first place (PEAR::XML_Transformer comes to mind, if you do not like XSLT). Kristian -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
