Re: Outputting text "<?" how to?

[Jasper Bryant-Greene <jasper@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

tedd wrote:
> Merlin:
>
> First the syntax should be:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?/>  <-- note the close /

No, that is invalid XML. The specification is available at 
http://www.w3.org/TR/XML11 (and makes riveting reading! ;)

[snip]
> If you want to print it to a web page, try:
>
> <?php
> $a=<<<EOD
> &lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?/>
> EOD;
> echo($a);

echo '&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>';

would work just as well and is a hell of a lot easier to look at. That's 
assuming you actually want it to appear on the page for the user to see, 
if you want the browser to interpret it you'll have to change the &lt; 
at the start to a <

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