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Re: How do Comments affect Performance?
Mike,
Kay Michael wrote:
>
> 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.
Not really important, and just out of curiosity... does this mean that
you won't access the comments in the stylesheet though
document("")//comment() ?
Thanks
Eric
> Mike Kay
>
> > Does anybody have any idea how much comments inside a
> > stylesheet can affect the speed of transformations?
> >
>
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