From: rarpsl at banet dot net
Operating system: PHP
PHP version: 5.2.12
PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request
Bug description: <?xml Header not Special Cased
Description:
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For over 6 years (or more) PHP has refused to accept a valid XHTML pages
that begin with the a <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> tag. While
this bug can be worked around by using an echo command to output the tag,
this makes the code non-compliant with verifiers that do not see the
echo'ed tag but only the PHP code itself.
Since the first line in an XHTML page can be the <?xml tag (which is not
valid anywhere else) the PHP interpreter should be able to parse the tag
and then accept/ignore it so long as it is the first thing encountered. If
it is not the first line, then the current trap code can handle it as it
currently does when it is validly placed.
Reproduce code:
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<?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>
.
.
.
(etc)
Expected result:
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A display of my PHP Page (as would occur without the <?xml tag).
Actual result:
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Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in
/home/gjzvtbxe/public_html/test3.php on line 1
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Fixed in SVN:
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Fixed in SVN and need be documented:
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Fixed in release:
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Not developer issue:
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Expected behavior:
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Not enough info:
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Submitted twice:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50572&r=submittedtwice
register_globals:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50572&r=globals
PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50572&r=php4
Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50572&r=dst
IIS Stability:
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Install GNU Sed:
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Floating point limitations:
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No Zend Extensions:
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MySQL Configuration Error:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50572&r=mysqlcfg
