diff --git a/wp-includes/feed-atom.php b/wp-includes/feed-atom.php
index e47f6ba83..ebb316dc4 100644
--- a/wp-includes/feed-atom.php
+++ b/wp-includes/feed-atom.php
@@ -8,8 +8,7 @@
 header('Content-Type: ' . feed_content_type('atom') . '; charset=' . get_option('blog_charset'), true);
 $more = 1;
 
-?>
-<?php echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="'.get_option('blog_charset').'"?'.'>'; ?>
+echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="'.get_option('blog_charset').'"?'.'>'; ?>
 <feed
   xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
   xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0"
diff --git a/wp-includes/feed-rdf.php b/wp-includes/feed-rdf.php
index be15a238b..eee132edb 100644
--- a/wp-includes/feed-rdf.php
+++ b/wp-includes/feed-rdf.php
@@ -8,8 +8,7 @@
 header('Content-Type: ' . feed_content_type('rdf') . '; charset=' . get_option('blog_charset'), true);
 $more = 1;
 
-?>
-<?php echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="'.get_option('blog_charset').'"?'.'>'; ?>
+echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="'.get_option('blog_charset').'"?'.'>'; ?>
 <rdf:RDF
 	xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/"
 	xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
diff --git a/wp-includes/feed-rss.php b/wp-includes/feed-rss.php
index 51807dcc2..51c15ec71 100644
--- a/wp-includes/feed-rss.php
+++ b/wp-includes/feed-rss.php
@@ -8,8 +8,7 @@
 header('Content-Type: ' . feed_content_type('rss') . '; charset=' . get_option('blog_charset'), true);
 $more = 1;
 
-?>
-<?php echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="'.get_option('blog_charset').'"?'.'>'; ?>
+echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="'.get_option('blog_charset').'"?'.'>'; ?>
 <?php the_generator( 'comment' ); ?>
 <rss version="0.92">
 <channel>
diff --git a/wp-includes/feed-rss2.php b/wp-includes/feed-rss2.php
index 46edbd037..7b9e4123f 100644
--- a/wp-includes/feed-rss2.php
+++ b/wp-includes/feed-rss2.php
@@ -8,8 +8,7 @@
 header('Content-Type: ' . feed_content_type('rss2') . '; charset=' . get_option('blog_charset'), true);
 $more = 1;
 
-?>
-<?php echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="'.get_option('blog_charset').'"?'.'>'; ?>
+echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="'.get_option('blog_charset').'"?'.'>'; ?>
 
 <rss version="2.0"
 	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"