To formalize they are now XML-compliant (with some asterisks.)
Also to help syntax highlighters work on them to make their content more
readable.
Also:
- Delete empty comment decorations.
- GHA/checksrc: simplify XML check.
- runtests: fail to load test data with XML prolog missing.
Follow-up to bfe6eb1c06#19927
Follow-up to 87ba80a6dfCloses#19946
- make the scanner not whitelist anything for test cases making
everything non-ascii forced to be hex encoded
- update all tests using non-ascii bytes to use %hex[] sequences
Closes#17331