From: Lance Pollard <lancejpollard@...>
Date: 2009-09-25T10:19:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Ordering XML Attributes with Hpricot?

Thanks a lot axel, I'll give these a try

Best,
Lance

Axel Etzold wrote:
> Dear Lance,
> 
> I accidentally hit the "send" button too early:
> 
>> 
>> Since the attributes are kept in a hash there's no order to them, so
>> they appear in seemingly random order, but it's the same random order
>> consistently.
>> 
>> Any ideas how to do that?
>> 
> 
> a Hash can be sorted to give an Array with Hash#sort :
> 
> http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Hash.html#M002865
> 
> 
>> And is there a way to say "after two attributes, make a new line".  So I
>> can print out xml that can be edited by humans like code.
> 
> You can then iterate through the Array with Array#each_with_index,
> eg.
> 
> my_array.each_with_index{|x,i| if i%2==0 ; p x + "\n"; else p x; end}
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Axel

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