Problem with my RSS FEED in my view

[eluser]cayasso[/eluser]
Hi all, I need your guys help, here is the issue:

I was adding the RSS Feed functionality to my code but I keep getting this error

XML Parsing Error: syntax error
Location: http://localhost/ci/index.php/feed/index/noticias
Line Number 1, Column 37:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"; ?>
------------------------------------^

It seems that php is adding an semicolon to the code, ...encoding="utf-8";... and this is weird, this extra semicolon seems to be cousin all the issue. I am not sure why this is doing this but I cannot get it to work, I have tried everything but no luck!

Here is my rss.php view code

Code:

<?php header("Content-Type: text/xml");
echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>' . " ";
?>
<rss version="2.0"
    xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
    xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
    xmlns:admin="http://webns.net/mvcb/"
    xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
    xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/">

    <channel>
    
    &lt;title&gt;My title&lt;/title&gt;

    &lt;link&gt;this should be the link&lt;/link&gt;
    <description>My Description</description>
    <dc:language>en</dc:language>
    <dc:creator>I am the creator </dc:creator>

    <dc:rights>My Copyright </dc:rights>
    <admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://www.codeigniter.com/" />

        <item>

              &lt;title&gt;TITULO&lt;/title&gt;
              
              &lt;link&gt;http://www.hola.com&lt;/link&gt;
              <guid>http://www.hola.com</guid>

              <description>
              &lt;![CDATA[

                 MY TEXT HERE
            
              ]]>    
              </description>
              <pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 01:57:02 GMT</pubDate>
              
        </item>
      
    </channel></rss>

and this is how I call it in my feed.js controller

Code:

<?php
class Feed extends Controller
{
    function Feed()
    {
        parent::Controller();
        $this->load->helper('xml');    
    }
    
    
    function index()
    {    
            $feed = $this->load->view('feed/rss', '', TRUE);
        $this->output->set_output($feed);        
    }
}
?>

I hope one of you EXPERTS!!! can help me with this, :down:

Thanks in advance!!