Question about parsing xml attributes using DOM

[phantom]

Hi all.

I have a xml file as

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<INFO name="" orderno="123" type="abc" status="done">
<info1 .... some more information/>
</INFO>

I am using a DOM parser and the NamedNodeMap to get the attributes,
the problem is the order of the attributes does matter in the
processing and the data structure stores the attributes in an
alphabetized format, what i want is the attributes be stored in the
way they were received. I would appreciate all suggestions/pointers
for the same.

Thanks
Sid

 

[Andy Fish]

Hi all.

I have a xml file as

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<INFO name="" orderno="123" type="abc" status="done">
<info1 .... some more information/>
</INFO>

I am using a DOM parser and the NamedNodeMap to get the attributes,
the problem is the order of the attributes does matter in the
processing and the data structure stores the attributes in an
alphabetized format, what i want is the attributes be stored in the
way they were received. I would appreciate all suggestions/pointers
for the same.

don't use XML. that's your only option, simple as that

 

[Lutz Horn]

Hi,

the problem is the order of the attributes does matter in the
processing and the data structure stores the attributes in an
alphabetized format, what i want is the attributes be stored in the
way they were received.

That's not possible since attributes form a set with no order.

"Note that the order of attribute specifications in a start-tag or
empty-element tag is not significant."[1]

Regards
Lutz

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/#sec-starttags