On Tuesday 2004-04-13 01:18, Patrick Fleming wrote:
> Trent Shipley wrote:
> > On Monday 2004-04-12 20:16, Patrick Fleming wrote:
> >>And depending upon the server you could probably get away with just the
> >>short tags like <?  and ?>
> >
> > But avoid the short tag version
> > <? ... ?>
> >
> > <? ... ?>  is XML for start application specific processing info.
> >
> > Apache-2 will balk at the bare application processing start tag (unless
> > the page has declared a default application).  It needs:
>
> Hmm.... could you clarify that? I have Apache 2.x running on my server
> and I use the short tags for php with no problems. I am not using any
> kind of xml though.

Dang!  I must be wrong.  I remember having the short tags fail somewhere, I 
just can't remember where.  Still, some authors say they are bad style.

In either case HTML is a subset of either SGML or XML (depending on the 
version of HTML) and 
<? .. ?>
marks application specific processing info in default SGML.  XML is basically 
a standardized version of SGML so in XML 
<? .. ?> 
is always a processing instruction.
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