diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 02884f7774f..571a5e284a2 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2012-01-27  Alex Harsanyi  <harsanyi@mac.com>
+
+	* xml.el (xml-parse-tag): Fix parsing of comments (Bug#10405).
+
 2012-01-26  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
 
 	* dired-x.el (dired-bind-jump): Use ctl-x-map and ctl-x-4-map.
diff --git a/lisp/xml.el b/lisp/xml.el
index f7b54048d3a..39a8da0f337 100644
--- a/lisp/xml.el
+++ b/lisp/xml.el
@@ -421,7 +421,8 @@ Returns one of:
      ;;  skip comments
      ((looking-at "<!--")
       (search-forward "-->")
-      nil)
+      (skip-syntax-forward " ")
+      (xml-parse-tag parse-dtd xml-ns))
      ;;  end tag
      ((looking-at "</")
       '())