using stringtie -L on a bam with tag XS

[mhoang22]

Hi StringTie team,

I have a question about stringtie3.
If I have a pacbio hifi bam aligned with minimap2 (which produces a ts tag), and I convert the ts tag to XS. Will running StringTie3 -LR on this modified BAM still perform transcript assembly and abundance estimation as intended for PacBio HiFi data, including the assumption that supports removal of transcripts with internal priming artifacts?
Or would these assumptions break if I supply a BAM with an XS tag?

Best,
My