(Q) PHP parse errors for XHTML

[email protected] (Wayne Smith) Tue, 16 May 2000 11:58:17 -0700
Newsgroups	php.general
Message-ID	<4.2.2.20000516113145.0213d260@mail1>
Friends,

I apologize if this is a newbie question.  I am running PHP 4.0 RC1 over 
Apache 1.3.12 (built as mod_php into Apache).

PHP code embedded in HTML files is working.  PHP code embedded in XHTML 
files is *not* working.  XHTML files are basically composed of HTML grammar 
but with XML syntax.  Upon trying to load the XHTML page, I get the 
following PHP error:

         Parse error: parse error in /<mypath>/test.php on line 1

Below is a sample XHTML file that generates that error.  I tried using the 
'<?php' and the '<script language="php">' forms, but that didn't help.  I 
believe that '<?xml' needs to be the first line in the XHTML file and there 
are no other alternatives on the XML side of the house.  Is there a PHP or 
Apache configuration directive that I can use to get PHP to work with these 
files?  Or?

I guess one could argue that if you have PHP, why even use emerging 
XML-based standards?  My preference would be to be that they, in general, 
should complement each other (grin).

Thanks in advance,

Wayne


test.php
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE html
  PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>
<title>Test</title>
</head>

<body>
This is the body
<br>
<? $mydate = date( "Y-m-d" );
    PRINT "The date today is: $mydate";
?>

</body>
</html>
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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