diff --git a/src/plugins/coreplugin/mimedatabase.cpp b/src/plugins/coreplugin/mimedatabase.cpp
index ccbe55a95de..a16cbc8805a 100644
--- a/src/plugins/coreplugin/mimedatabase.cpp
+++ b/src/plugins/coreplugin/mimedatabase.cpp
@@ -1493,7 +1493,7 @@ MimeType MimeDatabasePrivate::findByFile(const QFileInfo &f, unsigned *priorityP
 
     // Pass 1) Try to match on suffix
     const TypeMimeTypeMap::const_iterator cend = m_typeMimeTypeMap.constEnd();
-    for (int level = m_maxLevel; level >= 0 && candidate.isNull(); level--) {
+    for (int level = m_maxLevel; level >= 0; level--) {
         for (TypeMimeTypeMap::const_iterator it = m_typeMimeTypeMap.constBegin(); it != cend; ++it) {
             if (it.value().level == level) {
                 const unsigned suffixPriority = it.value().type.matchesFileBySuffix(context);
diff --git a/src/plugins/texteditor/TextEditor.mimetypes.xml b/src/plugins/texteditor/TextEditor.mimetypes.xml
index e8e8aaa11c3..2431241c2e9 100644
--- a/src/plugins/texteditor/TextEditor.mimetypes.xml
+++ b/src/plugins/texteditor/TextEditor.mimetypes.xml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
         <alias type="text/xml"/>
         <sub-class-of type="text/plain"/>
         <comment>XML document</comment>
-        <glob pattern="*.xml"/>
+        <glob pattern="*.xml" weight="50"/><!-- reduce weight to allow application/vnd.rim.qnx.bar_descriptor to override by content -->
         <glob pattern="*.xsl"/>
         <glob pattern="*.xslt"/>
         <glob pattern="*.xbl"/>