Hi Denk,

We came across this problem a while back.
You are right, the code in the tutorial is correct, but the HTML validator doesn't recognise the XHTML MP doctype. To get the HTML Validator Firefox extension to work you can change the Validation configuration to use the Tidy algorithm. We have more info in this forum thread.

wicked :D

thx for the fast reply btw m8 ;)

grtz Yannick

another problem

First line of my index.php is:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

My browser says:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in ......index.php on line 1 and ready.mobi can't even parse it nor can the w3c validator check the page

So, i conclude that the <?xml ... has to be removed, but why is it in the training then? ;)

grtz Yannick

In PHP (depending on how your server is set up), it can be better sometimes to print out this line instead of putting it straight into the file i.e.

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

Actually, I believe that there's a badly configured webserver at fault here!
I've heard rumours of Apache being told to parse a .php file as php, and not bother looking for the opening <?php tag (admittedly, this was quite some time ago, so my memory is slightly fuzzy on it now). If this is indeed what's causing the error, then the reason why <?xml is killing your internet is because its not a valid php tag!

Odds are that if you can discover why the webserver is configured in this way (and, hopefully, have it changed), then you can avoid the unnecessary printing of the xml tag from within php (like you're trying to do)!

I believe too that PHP servers can be configured to parse PHP on '<?' as well as '<?php', and so the xml declaration will be interpreted as PHP...

Actually I'm not sure that the <? and <?xml will be confused... I hadn't thought of that though

*edit*
I'm almost 100% positive that <?xml won't be confused with <?

I think it's more that the '<?' is being treated the same in either case, but the 'xml version...' is interpreted as PHP, and of course it's not!

Right then! It's a challenge!

/me runs off to test

OK - I concede - you win :(

works if i use the print '<?xml .........' :D

thanks once more ruadhan :D