[jdom-interest] Sorting children!

[philip.nelson at omniresources.com]

> I got no replies to my first post on this subject (it was titled
> "Comparators")!
> 
> It is not possible to sort (Collections.sort()) the result of
> Element.getChildren(). Or rather, it is possible, but it does 
> not affect the
> xml at all (because it sorts the PartialList, not the content itself).
> 
> Is that a known bug, or you just never thought someone will 
> try to do that?

I thought I had replied but I guess not.  Since ParialList will be gone very
shortly, we are not handling bugs for it any longer.  There are lots of
them.