I forgot I asked that question here too. I actually turned up a pretty simple function some dude developed to sort XML at http://freerpad.blogspot.com/2007/07/more-hierarchical-sorting-e4x-xml-for.html I then modified it a bit to do what I need and posted it here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1869964/flex-newbie-xmllist-question.
It's essentially the same thing as your suggesting but I couldn't use the set children easily since I had multiple note names and I only wanted to sort one. ex: <question> <answer sort=1/> <answer sort=3/> <answer sort=2/> <defaultAnswer/> </question> I only need to (and only can) sort <answer> nodes but need to keep the <defaultAnswer> around. Thanks for the help though, sorry I didn't post the answer I had found sooner. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Tracy Spratt" <tr...@...> wrote: > > I don't believe you can sort an xmllist directly. I use a function that > takes the children of a node (XMLList), wraps it in an XMLListCollection, > sorts it, then uses setChildren() to re-assign the sorted children to the > parent. I think I have posted that here actually. > > > > Tracy Spratt, > > Lariat Services, development services available
