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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] dropping asp_tags in HEAD
From: edin@krug.dk (Edin Kadribasic)


On Apr 14, 2007, at 6:51 PM, Nicolas A. B=E9rard-Nault wrote:

> Maybe I'm missing something here, but why should PHP be compliant =20
> with a
> standard that absolutely has nothing to do with the language (c.f.: =20=

> XML) ?
> Isn't it obvious that a file with the extension .php is NOT an XML =20
> file ? It
> seems to me the short tags issue is starting to become a bikeshed
> argument...
>
> Again, sorry if I'm missing the point.

Say you want PHP to produce XML output in a template like fashion:

<?xml ...>
<user>
   <name><%=3D $username %></name>
   <zip><%=3D $zip %></zip>
</user>

Now to me personally this looks very neat and allows for code/=20
presentation separation, in this case presentation being XML output.

You cannot do this with short tags enabled because PHP will throw a =20
parse error on line one.

So you have two options: enable asp tags and use it as above, or use:

  <name><?php echo $username?></name>

syntax.

It comes down to taste, and to my eye the version with asp tags looks =20=

more readable when you use PHP in this way.

Edin