RSS feed issues

Hi all,

I am trying to set up an RSS feed using the cmsb rss feed generator but am running into all sorts of issues.

For a start, if I include the following line 

<?php header('Content-type: application/xml; charset=utf-8'); ?><?php echo '<'.'?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>'; ?>

I get an error "error on line 35 at column 118: Document is empty"

When testing the page with rss viewers there doesn't seem to be any content in the feed yet the foreach routine looks fine to me.  The location of the feed is https://www.bridlington.net/bridlington-news.xml if someone would be kind enough to take a look and advise where the problem lies i would be most grateful.

The code for the page is below if it helps.

Thanks in advance for any help provided

<?php header('Content-type: application/xml; charset=utf-8'); ?>
<?php
  /* STEP 1: LOAD RECORDS - Copy this PHP code block near the TOP of your page */
  
  // load viewer library
  $libraryPath = 'cmsb/lib/viewer_functions.php';
  $dirsToCheck = array('/home/sites/4b/4/4af2cde633/public_html/','','../','../../','../../../');
  foreach ($dirsToCheck as $dir) { if (@include_once("$dir$libraryPath")) { break; }}
  if (!function_exists('getRecords')) { die("Couldn't load viewer library, check filepath in sourcecode."); }

  // load records from 'current_news'
  list($current_newsRecords, $current_newsMetaData) = getRecords(array(
    'tableName'   => 'current_news',
    'orderBy'     => '',   // use default database order
    'loadUploads' => false,
    'allowSearch' => false,
  ));

?>
<?PHP
function maxWords($textOrHtml, $maxWords) {
$text=str_replace("<p>","*P*",$textOrHtml);
$text= str_replace("</p>","*/P*",$text);
$text = strip_tags($text);
$words = preg_split("/\s+/", $text, $maxWords+1);
if (count($words) > $maxWords) { unset($words[$maxWords]); }
$output = join(' ', $words);
$output=str_replace("*P*","<p>",$output);
$output=str_replace("*/P*","</p>",$output);
$output.="...</p>";

return $output;
}
?>
<?php header('Content-type: application/xml; charset=utf-8'); ?><?php echo '<'.'?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>'; ?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
  <channel>
	  <atom:link href="https://bridlington.net/bridlington-news.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
    <title>Bridlington news from Bridlington.net</title>
    <link>https://www.bridlington.net/</link>
    <description>Bridlington.net providing Bridlington news and information.</description>
    <pubDate><?php echo date('r') ?></pubDate>
    <language>en-us</language>
	  	


    <?php foreach ($current_newsRecords as $record): ?>
    <item>
      <title><?php echo htmlencode($record['title']) ?></title>
      <link>https://<?php echo $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']; ?>/<?php echo $record['_link'] ?></link>
      <description>  <![CDATA[<?php echo maxWords ($record['content'],60) ?> <a href="https://<?php echo $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']; ?><?php echo $record['_link'] ?>" target="_blank">Read more..</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate><?php echo date('r', strtotime($record['createdDate'])) ?></pubDate>
      
    </item>
    <?php endforeach ?>
  </channel>
</rss>