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

Hello Stanislav,

Friday, March 21, 2008, 10:11:24 PM, you wrote:

> Hi!

>>   since when can I not verify that my general HTML/XHTML structure is valid?

> The question is since when PHP code has any XML structure?

>> This is especially valid in template systems as you mentioned earlier.

> OK, so you are verifying templates. Great. Obviously, if you use XML 
> templates (with PHP being Web language, this is rather unusual use case, 
> but OK), you are not using short tags, so it's OK. However, for people 
> having HTML templates, it still would be OK to verify them with HTML 
> tools unless you have tools that OK with <?php but can't support <?=. 
> Are there such tools?

<?php is a valid PI.
<?= is not

This was discussed several times already and Pierre put you directly onto
its definition. What more can we say? I think we have a valid technical
argument here, where you seem to simply wanting to save a few key strokes.

Best regards,
 Marcus