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What is the purpose of the change

Two statements in the docs of PARSE_XML and XML_STRING didn't match the behavior.

Brief change log

• PARSE_XML: a dateTime whose offset moves it past the year 9999 in UTC stays a STRING. The docs said that 9999-12-31T23:00:00-08:00 maps to a TIMESTAMP_LTZ.
• XML_STRING: the docs said that every value other than a string or a UUID gets an xsi:type. Only the text of an element without child elements gets one. Attribute values, and text next to child elements, are written without a type and read back as strings.

Verifying this change

This change is a docs-only fix without any test coverage.

Does this pull request potentially affect one of the following parts:

• Dependencies (does it add or upgrade a dependency): no
• The public API, i.e., is any changed class annotated with @Public(Evolving): no
• The serializers: no
• The runtime per-record code paths (performance sensitive): no
• Anything that affects deployment or recovery: JobManager (and its components), Checkpointing, Kubernetes/Yarn, ZooKeeper: no
• The S3 file system connector: no

Documentation

• Does this pull request introduce a new feature? no
• If yes, how is the feature documented? not applicable

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LGTM!