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Missing charset for text/xml document - w3 XML validation

I have an issue with my Google Product Feed where I am getting two warnings when using the W3 XML validator. The two warnings are:

Warning Missing "charset" attribute for "text/xml" document.
Warning No DOCTYPE found! Checking XML syntax only.

This is the top two lines of my XML file:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<rss version="2.0" xmlns:g="http://base.google.com/ns/1.0" charset="UTF-8">

I added the charset to the rss tag in an effort to clear the warnings. I passed the validation, but I think I need to clear these warnings for Google to accept the feed.

Thanks.

You still don't have a doctype there. At a minimum you need <!doctype rss> in order to define the root element in the document.