Escaping <? on php shorthand enabled server when using require

Question

I\'m trying to require() my template for rss feed in php. Unfortunately I need to have shorthand tags enabled on server I\'m working with.

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Answer 1

For XML files, the <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> is optional (and actually the default like you write it), so you can just remove it and therefore could fix the problem for this case.

Answer 2

You could <?php echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>'; ?>