org.w3c.dom.* saves my XML with attributes in alphabetical order

[Guy Harel]

I have read many posts saying that there was no solution to the problem of attribute alphabetical name ordering during a document save. I am wondering if there is now a solution ? The new XML crashes a .NET application...

    
  public void Save(String strFilePath) throws Exception
  {
    DOMSource  domSource = null;
    StreamResult streamResult = null;
    Transformer transformer = null;

    try
    {
      transformer = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
    }
    catch ( Exception e)
    {
      throw e;
    }

    transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes");

    streamResult = new StreamResult(new File(strFilePath));
    domSource = new DOMSource(m_doc);

    transformer.transform(domSource, streamResult);

  }

[Rob Spoor]

Then that .NET application is badly written. The XML specification allows attributes to appear in any order. Any XML parser / reader should be able to handle this.

Anyway, moving to our XML forum.

[Guy Harel]

I will try to use JDom instead, perhaps it won't change the attribute order.

[Paul Clapham]

Good luck with that. I can't believe that .NET comes with broken XML parsers, I'm sure it must be the C# application which is doing something wrong. I agree with Rob Prime that fixing that would be the appropriate thing to do.

[Guy Harel]

Well its a C++.NET DLL which uses the framework-loaded XML file "MyApp.exe.config", but indeed the bug comes from retreiving attributes in the non framework section of the XML. So not a bug in .NET. Thanks