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----- Hi, I have been writing some Java code to dynamically generate an XML file. The generated xml file is then submitted to a web service. I have been using dom4j to dynamically create the xml document, and it works fine. The problem is that the web service performs a schema validation on the xml request that I submit to it, and my generated xml request is failing the schema validation. The reason is because the schema xsd file in the web service uses the <sequence> tag and requires that the xml tags must be in a particular order. So for example, it might require the FirstName, LastName, and then Age tags in that order: <Document> <RecordsList> <FirstName>John</FirstName> <LastName>John</LastName> <Age>55</Age> </RecordsList> </Document> But dom4j does not preserve the order of the xml elements in the order in which I create them. So the resulting xml has the correct structure but the order of the elements are different; so for example the LastName tag might appear before the FirstName tag. Does anybody know how I can use dom4j or jdom or some other Java implementation to generate an xml document while preserving the order of the xml elements? Thanks. P.S. changing the xsd to not require the xml tags to be ordered is not an option. I do not have the authority to modify the xsd of the web service to remove the sequence requirement. ********************************************************** * Saladin Sharif * e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Visit homepage @ http://gaia.ecs.csus.edu/~sharifs ********************************************************** ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ dom4j-user mailing list dom4j-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-user