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Bug #4288 parse error when trying to use <?xml ... ?> declaration
Submitted: 2000-05-01 22:20 UTC Modified: 2000-05-02 00:29 UTC
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From: hrothgar at techie dot com Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Scripting Engine problem
PHP Version: 4.0 Release Candidate 1 OS: Linux i586 2.2.14
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2000-05-01 22:20 UTC] hrothgar at techie dot com 
Situation:  I'm trying to use XHTML (HTML meets XML) to build a site.  In my current implementation, I'm trying to use an `include` statement to insert the workings of a header.php file, but for simplification purposes, I've reduced the problem down to a single, *static* file for the parser to chew on.

Consider the file, test.php, to illustrate the problem:

>>>test.php
  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
  <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
  <head>foo</head>
  <body>bar</body>
  </html>
<<<test.php

I get the following parse error when trying to view this:

  Parse error: parse error in /home/httpd/html/test.php on line 1

It appears that the php parser is not respecting the `<?xml` tag as being a non-php tag.  If a non-php `<?*` tag is found, the parser should simply quote the tag instead of just dieing (IMHO).  Thanks

configuration:
  ./configure --with-mysql --with-axps --disable-debug
  apache 1.3.9

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 [2000-05-01 23:22 UTC] rasmus at cvs dot php dot net 
Edit your php.ini file and turn off the short tags.  Then use <?php ... ?> for your PHP tags.
 [2000-05-02 00:29 UTC] hrothgar at techie dot com 
I tried that.  Made the change, then did `apachectrl restart`.  Still gave me the parse error.  Sounds like the short tags option isn't working.
 [2002-10-01 07:09 UTC] xanthor at netcourrier dot dot com 
A solution is to write :

<?php
echo('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>');
?> 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
 
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