Hi, I know it's tough when you are working with xml files, modifying it, removing some nodes, adding some nodes programmatically and end up having xml doc with improper & inconsistent pattern. So why not just apply few lines of code with XSLT on an xml doc!!
Well, I'm not good at XSLT(Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) but to be honest it's amazing when you do it :D
Move to the business, well I have an unordered data.xml file (don't judge it, I know its a nonsense data file but it doesn't matter what file you have when you don't know how to sort the entire doc :P) which needs to be sorted and make a new copy of the same in data-new.xml.
And I want to sort the data.xml file according to some use cases like :
- I want
<Person>node to be appear first and then<work>node should come ...etc. - Plus I want to sort the Person node in the doc by
<name>& also want the<email>(s)tag to be sorted within it by text value. - With the above cases said, I also want to tweak the sequence of work node by its location
NOTE::
- You can notice that the xml contains namespaces also, so few namespaced tags (e.g.
<m:name>) - The point to use namespace it to show we can transform an xml with many namespaces.
- And you just have to do for the same is to mention namespace in the
<xsl:stylesheet>tag as an attribute (have a look on my sample file)
GOOD LUCK