The following comment has been added to this issue:
Author: Brian Minchau
Created: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 4:02 PM
Body:
Ed,
the order of attributes in a serialized XML document is not guaranteed. The standards
don't specify any ordering. I'm afraid we aren't going to sort them.
Sorting is a delecate issue. Different languages that use the same alphabet can have
a different sort order for the same letters.
Sorting them would have a performance impact.
If you want to compare two serialized XML documents to see if they are "the same",
please consider parsing each into a DOM and recursively traversing both DOMs in order
to compare.
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Key: XALANJ-1940
Summary: Default order of output/serialized attribute inconsistent.
Type: Improvement
Status: Unassigned
Priority: Major
Project: XalanJ2
Assignee:
Reporter: Ed Knoll
Created: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 2:02 PM
Updated: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 4:02 PM
Environment: Sun/Solaris 2.8; JDK 1.4; Xalan-J 2.6
Description:
We are creating an XML file from another XML file. During this process we will add
attriubtes to some of the input elements. If we execute this transformation using
org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process directly, our (generated) attributes come out in one
order. If we execute this process with a Java program which uses Transformer, DOM and
Serializer classes directly, we get a different attribute order.
This has no effect on downstream processing. However, from a regression testing
perspective where we are comparing new test results to old this does become a (minor)
issue.
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