Parser error when mentioning xml version - PHP-Editors

#1 (**permalink**) 2004-07-25, 04:48 PM

Hi Guys,

When I am using XML version in the XHTML, then I am getting parser error [Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING on line 1].

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-US" lang="en-US">
<head>
<title>Testing Page</title>
</head>
<body>

Hi</p>
</body>
</html>

When I store the above code under .php extension, I am getting parser error.

Observations:
- When I stored the same code under .htm extension, I am not getting any error.
- When I remove the version and encoding and just use <?xml?> in the first line and use .php extension, I am not getting any error.

System:
Apache/2.0.50 (Win32)
PHP Version 4.3.8 [Build Date Jul 13 2004 17:31:56]

Can you please help in understand what is going on and why parser error. I like to use the version in XML just to conform with w3c.org XHTML standards.

Blag · #2 (**permalink**) 2004-07-25, 04:59 PM

Quote:

When I store the above code under .php extension, I am getting parser error.

The big problem is that your mixing XML and HTML....And calling the page as a PHP script.

First.....PHP Scripts must be under <?php ?> tags.
Second....If you use the html extension....it gives you error, coz the code is not parsed.
If you just the <?XML?> as the first line....It's ok, cause your really not using any XML tag.

Greetings,

Blag

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