Error in XML tmlanguage file

[Keats]

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes

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The XML tmlanguage has some invalid state for comments: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/extensions/xml/syntaxes/xml.tmLanguage.json#L352-L387
The nesting of end/name is at the wrong place.

[RedCMD]

sadly this has been reported a few times

• Consider finding a new XML syntax highlighting grammar #236924
• TextMate config error in /extensions/xml/syntaxes/xml.tmLanguage.json #184852
• XML comments break with more dashes #182806
• Consider adopting a new XML grammar: XML comment bug due to deprecated atom/language-xml grammar #176193
• XML Code Colouring breaks when comment contains '--' #140388
• XML coloring breaks on certain comments #80763
• XML comments inside other XML comments cause the rest of the document to be highlighted as a comment #78442
• XML comment formatting issue #66282
• XML Coloring breaks when '--' used in comment #62221
• XML syntax highlighting fails when double hyphens appear inside multi-line comments #58076
• [xml] syntax parser failed to parse comment with -- in the middle #56679
• Fix a syntax error in xml extension #213983
• XML syntax definition problem atom/language-xml#96
• Fixed <%-- --%> based comment end rule atom/language-xml#106
• Update xml.cson atom/language-xml#107

[TylerLeonhardt]

/duplicate #236924

[vs-code-engineering]

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