XSLT: Are XML Comments parseable?

Hello,

Is it possible to read an XML comment through XSLT 1.0, use the Comment
as a String value to produce an XML file?

It sounds weird, but this should be a backdoor type of solution to solve
a problem in our project.  I am not sure if XSLT can actually read the
comments at all or if it skips them right away.

Any comments?

Thanks
Houman