<<<TEXT is being using in php variable to output xml?

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\[code\]$xmlSend = <<<TEXT <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <VMCAMEXM> <business> <id_company>{$idCompany}</id_company> <id_branch>{$idBranch}</id_branch> <country>{$Country}</country> <user>{$User}</user> <pwd>{$pwd}</pwd> </business> <transacction> <merchant>{$Merchant}</merchant> <reference>50000</reference> <tp_operation>13</tp_operation> <creditcard> <crypto>{$Crypto}</crypto> <type>V/MC</type> <name>{$name}</name> <number>{$number}</number> <expmonth>{$expmonth}</expmonth> <expyear>{$expyear}</expyear> <cvv-csc>{$cvv}</cvv-csc> </creditcard> <amount>{$cantidad}</amount> <currency>{$Currency}</currency> <usrtransacction>1</usrtransacction> </transacction> </VMCAMEXM>TEXT;echo "<pre>";print_r(htmlspecialchars($xmlSend));echo "</pre>"; //$url = $tUrl; $vars = "&xml=" . $rc4->limpiaVariable(urlencode($xmlSend)); $header[] = "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded"; $ch = curl_init(); $postfields = "info_asj3=1".$vars; curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$Url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 250); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postfields); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header); $data = http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12612878/curl_exec($ch); if (curl_errno($ch)) { $data = curl_error($ch); } else { curl_close($ch); }\[/code\]I am working with a new company that is using this to connect to an xml feed. But using this beginning \[code\]<<<TEXT\[/code\] is messing up all the code below it. I do not get any errors, the code works, but all my php code below is in black and honestly just is not easy to manage. If I take it out the xml feed does not function properly. Can someone tell me why this is working and what is a better way to accomplish this? I have searched everywhere and can find nothing on the topic. PLEASE HELP! Thank you to anyone in advance for taking the time to answer!