Do you have a performance problem?

If so, I doubt very much that removing comment nodes will help you solve it.
It might give you a 3% improvement, but if you have a problem, I doubt that
3% will make any difference.

And if you don't have a performance problem, why are you bothering?

Michael Kay

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Alvord [mailto:Greg.Alvord@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 12 April 2004 16:08
> To: 'xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject:  Comment nodes in XSLT files.
> 
> Traditionally comments in Interpreted language files slows 
> things down.  It
> there any practical experience with the impact of comment 
> nodes in the XSLT
> files, or best practice guidance?
>  
> I would like to find the balance point between too much and 
> too little.  
>  
> We have also considered an XSLT comment scrubber between the 
> saved source
> and the published source.  It would be easy to build, but if 
> the runtime
> impact of leaving the comments in place is sufficiently small 
> why introduce
> all the other headaches?
>  
> I think the answer varies from one XSLT processor to another. 
>  My particular
> interest is in .NET ( don't flame me please) but I have an 
> interest in other
> processors as well.
>  
>  
> Greg Alvord