From: Sean Liao <sean@liao.dev>
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 09:46:03 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: encoding/xml: document that embedded interfaces look like non-embedded ones
X-Git-Tag: go1.24rc1~674
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encoding/xml: document that embedded interfaces look like non-embedded ones

Fixes #69941

Change-Id: Icc3c88d57c14fa9ca203c693d67f144686fed8cc
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/621076
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diff --git a/src/encoding/xml/marshal.go b/src/encoding/xml/marshal.go
index 05b5542dfb..133503fa2d 100644
--- a/src/encoding/xml/marshal.go
+++ b/src/encoding/xml/marshal.go
@@ -62,6 +62,8 @@ const (
 //     string of length zero.
 //   - an anonymous struct field is handled as if the fields of its
 //     value were part of the outer struct.
+//   - an anonymous struct field of interface type is treated the same as having
+//     that type as its name, rather than being anonymous.
 //   - a field implementing [Marshaler] is written by calling its MarshalXML
 //     method.
 //   - a field implementing [encoding.TextMarshaler] is written by encoding the