You can't have a PI inside an attribute value. Period. But you could have a value that represents a PI
<auth name="<?php print $test ?>" /> and have a serializer that breaks the XML rule forcing that escaping, outputting the < and > characters instead. ______________________________________ "... Three things see no end: A loop with exit code done wrong, A semaphore untested, And the change that comes along. ..." -- "Threes" Rev 1.1 - Duane Elms / Leslie Fish (http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/songs/threes-rev-11.html)