Good example, but in the case of PHP, emitting the ending tag is completely acceptable by the standard and is a common best practice as well, especially if your

Good example, but in the case of PHP, emitting the ending tag is completely acceptable by the standard and is a common best practice as well, especially if your final content in the file is PHP code and not, for example, HTML. I think what the you're suggesting is more like stretching the rules and perhaps going outside of the standard a little, but in a way that most implementations would be able to handle.