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Thanks! In the config (via phpinfo) the only non-default option I found was safe_mode which was set to 1.

@ignace: No love. echo '<?xml version="1.0" ?>' does nothing with short_open_tag turned off (and ini_get() confirms it was set properly).

echo '<?xml version="1.0" ?>' doesn't appear in the source (nor in rendered page). I DOMDocument builds XML files from a tree that you have already stored into a bunch of the DOM objects. It is a way to do it, but would involve rewriting a lot of functions like updateHousingAndReturnXML() that build xml sections as strings.

echo '<?xml version="1.0" ?> returns nothing. updateHousingAndReturnXML() opens a webpage (using cURL), parses is with PCRE, and then returns a section of XML as a string. The XML returned by the function is stripped (doesn't give the information tags) so I am trying to add them by adding <xml version="1.0" ?> to the string before writing it to the file.

Hey all, I have encountered something strange in a script. I am trying to write an XML header and then fill in the file: $xmlFile = "fetchableData.xml"; $fh = fopen($xmlFile, 'r+'); $housingData = updateHousingAndReturnXML(); $xmlData = '<?xml version="1.0" ?>'.$housingData; // echo $xmlData; fwrite($fh,$xmlData); fclose($fh); This code fills the file with the contents of $housingData, but <?xml version="1.0" ?> is not added. If I break up <? it will add it but then I get errors when parsing the XML. Echoing the string also doesn't work with <?. I guess what is happening is that the string is getting parsed by the PHP engine for some reason. Escaping <? doesn't work. I am assuming I am missing something basic. But the manual doesn't say anything about <? being parsed in strings. Help? Thanks!