bug#37141: 27.0.50; spelling doesn't work in XML comments

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2019-08-22 17:16:37 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > That's a feature, see ispell-skip-html.
> > 
> > This is not documented in the Emacs manual.
> 
> We don't document every obscure feature in the manual, that would make
> it too large.  Some user options are left out.  I don't see why this
> one is important enough to add it, sorry.

That's not an obscure feature. The default is actually very silly.
There's no reason to exclude XML comments by default.

> > BTW, XML is not HTML.
> 
> Yes, and neither is SGML.  But a variable has a doc string, which is
> supposed to say more than just the name.

A user who does not know this variable and what it does will never
find it. Moreover, the doc string makes no sense. People should
learn how to write good documentation.

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