Sometimes you need to skip XML validation (e.g. a bug in your addon or XMLs from libs) without dropping syntax-highlighting or schema support
Current hack
current weird workaround
"files.associations": {
"**/node_modules/**/*.xml": "plaintext"
},
other example would be the "cSpell.ignorePaths" flag in settings or like .eslintignore file
That way you can temporarily ignore known-issue XML files and remove the patterns once the underlying bugs are fixed.