XHTML/PHP error

I'm working on the new design for the site i am workign on and have decided to have it follow XHTML specs. However when I tried to give the page a quick test It gives me a parse error on line 5. That is my XML declaration.

Is there any way around this without removing the XML declartion?

Just off the top of my head you could echo it to the page as a true literal (that is enclosing it in single quotes) that way php won't try to parse it -

echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>';

Hope that helps,

-KM-

1.
I suggest you write all your scripts with the
<?php tags instead of <?

2. You will need to set a configuration variable in your php.ini or in .htaccess / httpd.conf

php_value short_open_tag 0

Now php will recongnize <?xml is not php code and will not try to parse it.

I don't have access to the htaccess, php.ini or httpd.conf files however I will send a note to those who do.

I did try the echo the statement and it screwed with my CSS. So you can see what I mean go to http://www.suanhacky.org/TEST/template.php to see the site without the XML declaration. The go to http://www.suanhacky.org/TEST/template2.php to see it with the xml declartion

Thats too bad. I'm sorry to hear that.

My mostly used solution to fix that:


works fine with many of my rss/rdf-files

Hello! I had the same problem and I solved using this solution!

Thank You!

Bye
MauroMan