RE: How do Comments affect 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() ?

When the stylesheet is accessed as a source document (using document(""))
the same rules for whitespace and comments apply as for any other source
document. In Saxon, this means the stylesheet is re-parsed and a separate
tree is built.

Mike Kay


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