[Advanced-java] How do I retrieve attributes in correct order from a DOM?

[Prashant Parashar]

I am trying to retrieve database query result in XML and the columns are 
returned as attributes. I know the better way is to get them as elements 
but now can't go back...
and correct order is the order in which they appear in XML text - 
<element1 attr1="v1" attr2="v2" attr3="v3"........ />

here the correct order would be attr1, attr2, attr3 and so on. I hope it 
would help.

Thanks in advance,
Prashant Parashar
Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)


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At 10:44 AM 4/13/2006, Prashant Parashar wrote:

>Hi,
>How do I retrieve attributes in correct order from a DOM?

By the specification (see http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#NT-STag) the 
order or attributes is not supposed to be significant, so it unlikely 
that any parser will preserve their order. There is no "correct" order to 
get.

What is your document that the order of the attributes matters? 
Generally if you need ordering, you use a list of elements.

-Kathy Van Stone
kvs at acm.org


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