XHTML HEADERS

[PrimordialJackson]

Trying to create my first XHTML STRICT template in php and keep failing with a fatal error on line 1:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

What on earth am I doing wrong? I'm very embarrased getting stuck on line 1, know it's gonna be something really daft. Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers ...

 

[PrimordialJackson]

Ooops - forgot to mention the page errors with ...

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/charlesj/public_html/tpl/overall_header.tpl on line 1

 

[Foamcow]

You are using PHP?

The PHP parser on your server thinks that line is PHP as it starts with a <?


Try this instead.

<?php echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"iso-8859-1\"?".">"; ?>

The offending characters are "escaped" so PHP doesn't try to parse them.

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[PrimordialJackson]

Hi Foamcow,

I've been smoking to much!!!

All working fine now - just nice to see the W3C validation.

Thanks for your help.

Cheers ...

 

[ChrisHunt]

Bear in mind that that xml prefix line can throw IE into quirks mode. It's optional, even in XHTML strict, so I'd be inclined to leave it out.

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