On 14 Oct 2013, at 16:49, davep wrote:

> I'm being told that I should strip all comments out as they slow down
> the processing of xml using xslt 1.0, specifically the msxsl transform
engine.
>

If you've got a performance problem, then I doubt that stripping comments will
solve it, unless they are present in prodigious quantity.

If you haven't got a performance problem, then why are you asking?

Michael Kay
Saxonica