Posted by Andy Hassall on 08/11/05 01:40

On 10 Aug 2005 15:04:38 -0700, "Will Woodhull" <will@thornhenge.org> wrote:

>Andy Hassall wrote:
>> You wouldn't run PHP source through an XML validator in the first place.
>
>I haven't done anything with PHP and XML as yet.
>
>It is easier to validate a complex XHTML template with embedded PHP as
>a .html page-- so there are times when it makes sense to run PHP source
>through a validator. I expect that when I start working with AJAX kinds
>of things, passing PHP source through the XML validator will be pretty
>common.

Hm, I still don't see why you'd pass the SOURCE through an XML validator. You
pass the OUTPUT through a validator; sure.

Surely you're not going to get very far trying to write XML-validated PHP
source code; kinda rules out using "&&" ... unless you start jumping through
hoops with CDATA or something. Then again I don't know enough about how an XML
validator would react to the contents of a <?php ?> processing instruction.

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