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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PDM Meeting Notes
From: helly@php.net (Marcus Boerger)

Hello Sara,

Sunday, November 27, 2005, 3:39:40 AM, you wrote:

>> How PHP chokes on <?xml tags when short tags is enabled is compleltely
>> silly.  There's a patch here to fix it,
>> http://news.php.net/php.internals/18493, some proof of why it's a problem,
>> http://news.php.net/php.internals/18496, and the "bogus" (yeah, right) bug
>> report, http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=25987.
>>
> As the author of the patch you mentioned, I should reitterate that I don't 
> think that it's a *good* fix.  Treating <?xml as special is a hack, not a 
> broadband solution.

To second this, the xml standard allows any name after '<?' as processing
instruction. Widely in use is for example '<?jsp' and do you want to start
special treatment for java stuff in PHP?  ;-)

Best regards,
 Marcus