Posted by Colin Fine on 12/08/05 11:26

Lars Eighner wrote:
> In our last episode,
> <WemdnUQmq5naYAveRVn-pQ@comcast.com>,
> the lovely and talented Khai
> broadcast on comp.lang.php:
>
>
>
>>"Colin Fine" <news@kindness.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
>>news:dn583g$726$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk...
>>
>>>How do you know it is producing <br>? Where are you looking at it?
>>>It looks as if something along the way is rewriting your XHTML as HTML.
>>>
>>>Colin
>
>
>>I'm looking at the output in the browser (FireFox), and then view source.
>
>
>>My code is simply an <?php IF ( ) { ?> html code <br /> <?php } ?> to
>>generate an output. I've also tried echo, and print_f and when I look at the
>>output in a browser, via view source, it changes the <br /> to a <br>
>
>
>>*screaming and losing hair*
>
>
> I don't understand why that outputs anything.
>
> () should never be true, so if() should never execute whatever
> is in the brackets.
>
> if(1) outputs
>
> html code <br />
>
> but that isn't an html document, and in any event
> my firefox doesn't change the <br /> to <br>
>
>
I think you are being excessively literal, Lars. The word 'an' implies
that the code he just quoted is a schema, not the whole of the code.

Colin

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