[jdom-interest] Sorting Question

[kevin.schmidt at convergys.com]

Even though I love XML, I'm not a big fan of XSL.  Even though it has some
easy things, I think overall it is a very clumsy language.  I wrote the
sort the long way, using the Comparable interface, for anyone who wants to
see it.  Perhaps one of the JDOM gurus out there could take it and make it
more generic and include it into the JDOM spec?

(See attached file: SortElementsByName.java)(See attached file:
SortXML.java)

     -Kevin Schmidt
     Cincinnati, OH






Ian Lea <ian.lea at blackwell.co.uk>@pluto.blackwell.co.uk on 11/26/2001
10:30:51 AM

Sent by:  tril at pluto.blackwell.co.uk


To:   kevin.schmidt at convergys.com
cc:   jdom-interest at jdom.org
Subject:  Re: [jdom-interest] Sorting Question


How about using XSLT with a couple of <xsl:sort> elements?

<xsl:for-each select="Artist">
 <xsl:sort select="@name"/>
 ...
 <xsl:for-each select="Album">
  <xsl:sort select="@name"/>
  ...
  </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:for-each>


Just a thought, perhaps triggered by the fact that I've just
been writing some XSL stylesheets.


--
Ian.
ian.lea at blackwell.co.uk


kevin.schmidt at convergys.com wrote:
>
> I would like to have my XML file sorted in alphanumeric order by a given
> attribute.
> I would like to sort Artists and Albums by their name attribute, so, for
> example,
>
> <Artist name="Metallic">
>      <Album name="Master of Puppets"/>
>      <Album name="Load"/>
> </Artist>
> <Artist name="Aerosmith">
>      <Album name="Toys in the Attic"/>
>      <Album name="Draw the Line"/>
> </Artist>
>
> would become:
>
> <Artist name="Aerosmith">
>      <Album name="Draw the Line"/>
>      <Album name="Toys in the Attic"/>
> </Artist>
> <Artist name="Metallic">
>      <Album name="Load"/>
>      <Album name="Master of Puppets"/>
> </Artist>
>
> I was thinking of using the Comparable interface for the Element class,
but
> it seems like a lot of work and am wondering if there is an easier way.
>      -Kevin Schmidt
>      Senior Web Developer
>      Cincinnati, OH



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