Re: Stripping comments and processing instructions

From: "David Carlisle" <davidc@nag.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Stripping comments and processing instructions
 
> In XSLT 1 there's some words to the effect that comments in the source
> might or might not be visible to the stylesheet depending on whether
> the xml parser passes them on. It might be interesting to know whather
> or not they have been passed on (also it would be interesting to know
> whether id attributes have been read)

are u suggesting access to flags like this via system-property() ?
i think that this would be very useful.

cheers, jim fuller