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Feed fails Yandex validation on XML declaration

The generated feed fails Yandex validation because the XML declaration is not at the very start of the output.

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

4 public reports · first reported 2 August 2021 · last reported 12 December 2023

Idea report · $9 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Site owners using this Yandex Turbo feed plugin report that Yandex Webmaster rejects the feed with an XML error saying the declaration appears too late.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 4 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.