XML and PHP tags

[Anon]

Hi, how do I store PHP variables in an XML document?

For example:

<somexml>
<name><? $name = "Paul"; ?></name>
<age><? $age = "20"; ?></age>
</somexml>

When I parse XML, I see the contents of the XML, which is <? $name = "Paul"; ?> and <? $age = "20"; ?> but it suppose to be invisible since it's php variables...

I even tried:

<somexml>
<name><![CDATA[<? $name = "Paul"; ?>]]></name>
</somexml>

With no luck... same thing.

[dmills]

have you tried not using short tags (ie using "<?php" instead of "<?") ??? "<?" indicates a processing instruction to xml.

[Anon]

Yep, same thing...

Well, the page is empty, but when you view page source, you see php tags, and when you try to echo one of the variables, it doesn't work...

[Anon]

I mean this can't work as you mentioned. To get some PHP-provided values into your XML-file, it would mean that you'd have to write this certain XML-file with PHP!