I am trying to create an RSS feed of my news site by creating a document (simple document type used elsewhere) but with a different template. The template is as follows:

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoTemplatePage 

@{

    Layout = "";

    umbraco.library.ChangeContentType("text/xml");

    Html.RenderPartial("parNewsRSS");

}

The Partial View start like...

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoTemplatePage

@{

    var home = UmbracoContext.ContentCache.GetAtRoot().Single(x => x.DocumentTypeAlias == "Home");

    var newsOverview = home.Children.Single(x => x.DocumentTypeAlias == "NewsOverview");

    var newsItems = newsOverview.Children.Where(x => x.DocumentTypeAlias == "NewsItem")

                        .ToList().OrderBy("publishDate desc, createDate desc");

    DateTime latestDateTime = newsItems.First().GetPropertyValue<DateTime>("publishDate", newsItems.First().CreateDate);

    var siteUrl = "http://" + Request.Url.Host;

}

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

<rss xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" 

xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" 

xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"

xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"

xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"

xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" 

version="2.0">

<channel>

However when it is rendered, I am getting a whitespace line before the <?xml instruction.

Any chance I am going about this the wrong way or is there a standard way to trim out this type of whitespace ?

I am using Umbraco 7.1.4 with Razor engine.

Thanks

Russell