Just gonna do general reply instead of pointing at specific points. But as it has been pointed out using short tags makes the code less portable, which IMO isn't ideal.
I personally don't tinker with INI settings withing PHP with `ini_set` as IMHO if you need to change them it should be done in the php.ini file. However, I'm not sure of the behavior if someone sets this behavior within a file/class does this only affect this specific instance or is it globally? Because if it is globally I can see code that writes/uses XML be affected as pointed out by Johannes As it seems that there are people for and against; I suppose I could write an RFC for this, but would need the karma to do so. Best regards George P. Banyard
