Spotlight menu vs Spotlight window

Ever since upgrading to Mavericks, some types of files will no longer appear in the spotlight menu even though they match the search terms. The same files actually do show up when the search is performed from a finder window and not from the menu .
It appears that this happens with files that the finder classifies as "developer" files (for instance, xml files).
Is there any way to change this and make these files appear in the spotlight menu as well?

I was on an iPhone when I responded previously. However, I am now looking at my Spotlight list in Mavericks and it has a Developer option and I can search for xml files, along with other “Developer” files.
I’m not sure why yours would not have the category.
Perhaps this will help: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20110805192212447
It is the opposite, but should be same method to add a category back.

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