Forum: Ruby Attribute ordering in REXML

Hi all!

We are using REXML to modify XML files in our project, and we experience 
that the attributes of all tags are always reordered.  For XML files 
that are checked into source control, this generates unnecessary noise.

Is there a way to either keep the ordering of the tag attributes intact 
or choose to have a predictable ordering like alphanumerical ordering?

All help is appreciated and links are gladly accepted :)

On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Uwe Kubosch <uwe@kubosch.no> wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> We are using REXML to modify XML files in our project, and we experience that 
the attributes of all tags are always reordered.  For XML files that are checked 
into source control, this generates unnecessary noise.
>
> Is there a way to either keep the ordering of the tag attributes intact or 
choose to have a predictable ordering like alphanumerical ordering?
>
> All help is appreciated and links are gladly accepted :)

https://www.google.de/search?q=rexml+attribute+ordering

->

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/574724/rexml-pr...

Cheers

robert

On 2012-12-03, at 09:39, Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> 
wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Uwe Kubosch <uwe@kubosch.no> wrote:
>>
>> We are using REXML to modify XML files in our project, and we experience that 
the attributes of all tags are always reordered.  For XML files that are checked 
into source control, this generates unnecessary noise.
>>
>> Is there a way to either keep the ordering of the tag attributes intact or 
choose to have a predictable ordering like alphanumerical ordering?
>>
>> All help is appreciated and links are gladly accepted :)
>
> https://www.google.de/search?q=rexml+attribute+ordering
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/574724/rexml-pr...


Thanks!  That did the trick.