PHP and XML

[sylunt1]

Hello...

I am trying to get a piece of XML into my PHP and since the server has short_open_tag = on (it's hosted and they won't change it) it seems to not want to recognize the <?xml part.

Does anyone know of a work around? other than changing hosts.

<?php
if (isset($_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT"])
 and stristr($_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT"], "application/xhtml+xml")) {
  header("Content-type: application/xhtml+xml");
}
else {
  header("Content-type: text/html");
}

?>           

[B]<?xml version="1.0"?>[/B]

<!DOCTYPE rss PUBLIC "-//Netscape Communications//DTD RSS 0.91//EN"
              "http://my.netscape.com/publish/formats/rss-0.91.dtd">
<rss version="0.91">

  <channel> 
    <title>Brew-Monkey.com</title>
    <link>[url]http://www.brew-monkey.com[/url]</link>
    <description>Your source for brew news, event and competition schedules, beer forums, reviews, and all things beer.</description>
    <language>en-us</language>
    <copyright>Copyright 2003-2004, Brew-Monkey.com</copyright> 
    <managingEditor>[e-mail]</managingEditor> 
    <webMaster>[e-mail]</webMaster> 

<?php


connection stuff...

$result="SELECT UNIX_TIMESTAMP(news_date) as news_date, news_id, news_title, news_snippet "
."FROM bm_news "
."ORDER BY news_date DESC "
."LIMIT 10";
$hStmt = mysql_query($result);
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($hStmt)) {
  $title = strip_tags($row['news_title']);

  echo "<item>"
  ."<title>$title</title>"
  ."<link>[url]http://www.brew-monkey.com/news.php?id=[/url]{$row['news_id']}</link>";

  echo "<description>";

  $body = strip_tags($row['news_snippet']);

  echo (strlen($body) > 255)
  ? substr($body, 0, 255)." ..."
  : $body;

  echo "</description>"
  ."<pubDate>".date("r", $row['news_date'])."</pubDate>"
  ."</item>";

}
?>

 </channel>
</rss>

[Sgarissta]

echo out the XML declaration?

echo "<?xml whatever blah blah \r\n";

[sylunt1]

Same error...

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING