RE: How do Comments affect Performance?

[Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@xxxxxxx>]

Comments in the stylesheet are supposed to be ignored. My reading of that is
that they don't even serve to separate text nodes, so

<a> <!--comment-->A</a>

will output <a> A</a>
rather than <a>A</a>, as it would if whitespace nodes were removed before
comments were removed.

Saxon therefore strips comments before even stripping whitespace nodes, ie.
they never find their way on to the tree and thus have absolutely negligible
effect on performance.

Mike Kay

> Does anybody have any idea how much comments inside a 
> stylesheet can affect the speed of transformations?
> 


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