magento-coding-standard: PHP Syntax errors in xml files

Preconditions

1. magento/magento-coding-standard v9
2. A magento module that has an xml file that starts with <?xml version="1.0" ?>

Steps to reproduce

1. run bin/phpcs ./ --standard=Magento2 --severity=10

Expected result

1. Nothing module passes the test

Actual result

FILE: /opt/atlassian/pipelines/agent/build/etc/module.xml
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FOUND 1 ERROR AFFECTING 1 LINE
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 1 | ERROR | PHP syntax error: syntax error, unexpected 'version'
   |       | (T_STRING)
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FILE: /opt/atlassian/pipelines/agent/build/etc/di.xml
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FOUND 1 ERROR AFFECTING 1 LINE
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 1 | ERROR | PHP syntax error: syntax error, unexpected 'version'
   |       | (T_STRING)
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This bug got introduced in v9 because our pipelines were running v8 yesterday and didn’t have this issue at the time.