How do Comments affect Performance?

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

I'd like to use comments to describe what's going on in each part of my
stylesheet, with the idea that our clients could then use their internal
resources to make any modifications they require to make the HTML output
match more closely to their internal website design.  My concern is that too
many comments could slow down the transformation, and ultimately affect the
overall speed of our product.

My sense from what I've seen so far is that the processing of comments
depends on which XSLT processor you use, but that most of them just pass
over the comments without acting on them.  Can anyone confirm that?


Paul Essex
Software Developer
Bridgeway Software, Inc.


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