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I don't think you'll find an off-the-shelf solution (structured tags
like <a.b.c> are pretty weird) but it's not difficult to express this
transformation in XSLT, especially if you split it into two phases.
Michael Kay
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Loh Yoon Chao [mailto:yoonchao@starhub.net.sg]
> Sent: 10 February 2004 01:51
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: [xml-dev] Existing libraries/mechanisms for
> alphabetically sorting and formatting XML files
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I currently have XML files with a flat key-value structure
> and the elements are unsorted and without proper formatting, e.g.
>
> <main>
> <e.f.g>
> <value xml:lang="en">data 2</value>
> </e.f.g>
> <a.b.c>
> <value xml:lang="en">data 1</value>
> </a.b.c>
> ...
> </main>
>
> Are there any existing libraries or mechanisms to do the following?
> - convert the file structure into a hierarchical tree structure
> - alphabetically sorting the individual elements at each level
> - indent the individual nodes properly in the resulting XML file
>
> The resulting XML file should look something like the following:
>
> <main>
> <a>
> <b>
> <c>
> <value xml:lang="en">data 1</value>
> </c>
> </b>
> </a>
> <e>
> <f>
> <g>
> <value xml:lang="en">data 2</value>
> </g>
> </f>
> </e>
> ...
> </main>
>
> I would rather not reinvent the wheel if there are existing
> libraries/mechanisms to do this sort of thing. Thanks in
> advance for any input.
>
> Peter
>
>
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