From: Lance Pollard <lancejpollard@...>
Date: 2009-09-26T00:18:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Ordering XML Attributes with Hpricot?

 > require 'rexml/document'
> 
> class OrderedAttributes < REXML::Formatters::Pretty
>   def write_element(elm, out)
>     att = elm.attributes
> 
>     class <<att
>       alias _each_attribute each_attribute
> 
>       def each_attribute(&b)
>         to_enum(:_each_attribute).sort_by {|x| x.name}.each(&b)
>       end
>     end
> 
>     super(elm, out)
>   end
> end
> 
> doc = REXML::Document.new(DATA.read)
> 
> fmt = REXML::Formatters::Pretty.new
> fmt.write(doc, $stdout)
> puts
> 
> fmt = OrderedAttributes.new
> fmt.write(doc, $stdout)
> puts
> 
> __END__
> <foo battr="1" aattr="2" cattr="3">
> </foo>

Thanks a lot Robert, I will try that out immediately.

Best,
Lance
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