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> Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 12:45:04 -0400 () > From: Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@l...> > Subject: Re: Scripting and XML > > So PHP/FI could parse correctly before, but probably not > > after delivery. > I recognize that there is really no way to ensure that the final output > will be valid XML. Yes there is: That's to make PHP/FI a conforming XML application. By now it is a turing complete, server side language that just allows one to omit a "print" or "echo" statement before HTML markup if outside a PI. If PHP/FI itself would parse documents than rather replacing string A with string B, there would be full control over output. I understand that doing so would break backward compatibility. > The whole point of a server-parsed html-embedded language is that it is > dynamic. The Roxen Server, which basically allows server-side processing similar to PHP/FI, uses specialized tags. This is dynamic, but one could give a "PHP/FI DTD". If it's modular, it can be mixed with any XML DTD. Whatever becomes of the namespaces/architectural forms discussion, it would work with any DTD. What can be done with PHP/FI that can't be done with XML is interacting with the httpd and external databases. Inserting text or do simple computations, will become the domain of client side processing languages. And don't forget there are entities with XML, so mere string relacement is no longer a challange. And because entities could be served by URL that are CGI (or whatever), they can become quite dynamic. PHP/FI used to solve many problems that existed due to shortcomings in HTML. Now with XML, many of those are gone. But XML uses different ways than PHP/FI did. IMHO there are two possible solutions: Redesign PHP/FI to become XML compliant (which is not backward compatible), or just see it as a special Apache scripting language (where I like mod_perl more). ++im -- Ingo Macherius // L'Aigler Platz 4 // D-38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld mailto:Ingo.Macherius@t... http://www.tu-clausthal.de/~inim/ Information!=Knowledge!=Wisdom!=Truth!=Beauty!=Love!=Music==BEST (Frank Zappa) xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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