[jdom-interest] Integrity of XML order?

Jason Hunter jhunter at collab.net
Wed Aug 23 14:10:52 PDT 2000


Mike Chambers wrote:
> 
> If I have the following XML:
> 
>  <Row>
>            <Label name="label_1">
>                value_1
>           </Label>
>            <Label name="label_2">
>                value_2
>            </Label>
>   </Row>
> 
> And access it with Jdom :
> 
>      SAXBuilder builder = new SAXBuilder(true);
>      Document doc = builder.build(new File(args[0]));
> 
> Am I guaranteed to get the data in the order that it is in the XML? 

Yep.  We currently preserve attribute order too, although unlike Element
order that's not required by XML.

-jh-



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