Hi Rajeevan, I think we have two issues.
1. The way attributes are ordered in generated source is not readable. Eg: Property name should come before the Property expression. This is a valid requirement and we will try to fix in a future release. (not in the next immediate release). We will need to find a correct XML processing library as Nuwan & Susinda mentioned. 2. Changes done in source view such as formatting, commenting, ordering of elements/attributes etc. will be overridden by switching between graphical view and source view. This is a more critical issue which tends users to move from Graphical editor to default XML editor. Currently we are regenerating the whole source according to what we have in graphical view. This will lead to override users's changes such as formatting, commenting. What we should do is to modify the existing source in source view according to the changes we have done is graphical view rather regenerating the whole source so that we will not loose anything we've done in the source view. Thanks for pointing these issues and we will fix these in future releases. Thanks, Viraj. On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 9:08 AM, Vimalanathan Rajeevan <rajeev...@wso2.com> wrote: > Thanks Nuwan and Susinda for your prompt responses. > > I would say it is a nice to have thing rather not a blocker for Developer > Studio. Here the issue is user can not keep desired attribute order when > using Graphical Editor(when switching between Design and Source view it is > getting overwritten). IMO, even though attribute order does not matter in > XML programming it is important for better readability as I explained > above. I have seen some users are using Eclipse default XML editor for > programming because of this kind of issues with Graphical Editor. But I > understand the difficulty of fixing this issue with available XML > processing libraries. So if possible we can give a try to fix this[1]. WDYT? > > [1] https://wso2.org/jira/browse/DEVTOOLESB-374 > > Thanks, > Rajeevan > > On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 1:00 AM, Susinda Perera <susi...@wso2.com> wrote: > >> Hi Rajeevan >> >> I have google a bit on this issue in general. It seems like normal DOM >> does not care about the attribute order. Also I believe xml schemas would >> also not care about the order[1]. We have to test this whether we have any >> support in axiom level. As this requirement is valid in terms of end user, >> please create a JIRA to track this. Kavith is looking at some other xml >> processing library, may be he can hive some input. >> >> [1] - https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-starttags >> >> On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 10:22 AM, Vimalanathan Rajeevan < >> rajeev...@wso2.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I will explain the issue with the help of Property Mediator. When we are >>> adding a property with an expression to a sequence in Graphical Editor, the >>> source view for that mediator is as follows, >>> >>> <property expression="fn:concat('Welcome ', >>> //m0:getQuote/m0:request/m1:symbol)" >>> name="TestProperty" xmlns:m0="http://services.samples"; >>> xmlns:m1=" http://services.samples/xsd "/> >>> >>> Here 'expression' is positioned before 'name' of the mediator. IMHO, >>> 'name' should be positioned before 'expression'(for better readability) and >>> we should try to keep the order as below(from ESB Doc), >>> >>> <property name="string" [action=set|remove] [type="string"] (value= >>> "literal" | expression="xpath") [scope=default|transport|axis2|axis2-client] >>> [pattern="regex" [group="integer"]]> >>> <xml-element/>? >>> </property> >>> >>> So I tried to change it from source view but when I switching between >>> graphical and source views my changes are removed and ordered by >>> alphabetically. It is giving difficulties when we are using Graphical >>> Editor and trying to keep some conventions. >>> It should be a known issue. Will we be able to fix this? >>> >>> Appreciate your thoughts on this. >>> >>> -- >>> Vimalanathan Rajeevan >>> Software Engineer, >>> WSO2, Inc. *http://wso2.com* <http://wso2.com> >>> Lean.Enterprise.Middleware >>> >>> Mobile: >>> *+94 773090875 <%2B94%20773090875>* >>> LinkedIn: >>> *https://www.linkedin.com/in/RajeevanVimalanathan >>> <https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajeevanvimalanathan>* >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Dev mailing list >>> Dev@wso2.org >>> http://wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> *Susinda Perera* >> Software Engineer >> B.Sc.(Eng), M.Sc(Computer Science), AMIE(SL) >> Mobile:(+94)716049075 >> Blog: susinda.blogspot.com >> WSO2 Inc. http://wso2.com/ >> Tel : 94 11 214 5345 Fax :94 11 2145300 >> >> > > > -- > Vimalanathan Rajeevan > Software Engineer, > WSO2, Inc. *http://wso2.com* <http://wso2.com> > Lean.Enterprise.Middleware > > Mobile: > *+94 773090875 <%2B94%20773090875>* > LinkedIn: > *https://www.linkedin.com/in/RajeevanVimalanathan > <https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajeevanvimalanathan>* > -- Viraj Rajaguru Associate Technical Lead WSO2 Inc. : http://wso2.com Mobile: +94 77 3683068
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