XHTML document in a .PHP file - How?

I have not used PHP. When you want to use XML inline with other scripts you
can use XML data islands. go to

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?URL=/library/psdk/xmlsdk/xmlp9
1b9.htm

for an example.

Hope this helps

<DANIELX webmaster> wrote in message news:3919f2a4$1@news.dev-archive.com...
>
> XHTML documents *must* begin with the processing instruction <?xml
> version="1.0"?>. Unfortunately, when the PHP parser sees <? it tries to
> parse it as PHP. How can I solve this? Should I put an include();
statement
> at
> the begining of the file to insert another file containing the XML
processing
> instruction?
> If that doesn't do the trick what will?
>
> PHP has XML parsing functions but that's not what I need. The XHTML
> (essentially HTML) document can already be converted to XML when
> validated against the W3C's XHTML DTD at the location specified in the
> DOCTYPE declaration.
>
> Any suggestions of a better forum to post this question would be greatly
> appreciated.
> AFAIK, there is no PHP newsgroup.