Order of Child Nodes within an Parent Node - XML Writer

mike

• January 13, 2009 00:00

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Hi,

I am having a problem ordering child nodes within a parent node through the XML Writer.

For example.

If I have a parent node...

<Book>
<Title>Snow White</Title>
<Author>Walt Disney</Author>
<ISBN>123456789</ISBN>
</Book>


Child node...


<Library>
<Location>London</Location>
<Location>Manchester<Location>
</Library>

I need to add a child node which I am able to do into the node, however I need to have the order in a particular sequence due to schemas.
The Child node needs to appear in between certain tags of the parents.

This is what I would like to have...

<Book>
<Title>Snow White</Title>
<Author>Walt Disney</Author>
<Library>
<Location>London</Location>
<Location>Manchester<Location>
</Library>
<ISBN>123456789</ISBN>
</Book>

This is currently what Clover XML Writer produces.
Clover puts the child node at the bottom of the parent node.

<Book>
<Title>Snow White</Title>
<Author>Walt Disney</Author>
<ISBN>123456789</ISBN>
<Library>
<Location>London</Location>
<Location>Manchester<Location>
</Library>
</Book>


Is there anyway to do this?
Is there anyway to control the sequencing within the XML Writer?

Thanks

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  mvarecha

  • January 20, 2009 09:12

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  Hi Mike,
  
  it's not possible to change order of elements in current version.
  
  Anyway, you may use XSL transformer component
  http://wiki.cloveretl.org/doku.php?id=c ... sformation
  for post-processing XML file.
  Create next phase in your graph and put XSL transformer into it.
  Don't connect any edges to in/out ports, just set attributes xmlInputFile(the same as output of XmlWriter) and xmlOutputFile.
  
  Regards,
  Martin Varecha

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