after delete
            Attributes are: 
after new set
            Attributes are: day,month,year
<item>
...
    <ait:date-delivered month="02" day="09" year="2010"/>
...
</item>


##</code><code>##

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use XML::Twig;

changeTagAttrOrder();

sub changeTagAttrOrder {
    my $t = XML::Twig->new(
        output_filter=>'safe',
        twig_handlers => {
            'ait:date-delivered' => \&changeTagAttrOrderHandler,
        },
        pretty_print => 'indented',
        keep_atts_order => 1,
    );
    $t->parse(\*DATA);
    $t->print;
    $t->purge;
}#end of changeTagAttrOrder

sub changeTagAttrOrderHandler {
    my( $t,$rootElt)= @_;
    my $curEltPath = $rootElt->path;

    my $att1Val = $rootElt->att('month');
    my $att2Val = $rootElt->att('year');
    my $att3Val = $rootElt->att('day');

    $rootElt->del_atts;
    print "after delete\n
            Attributes are: ".join(',',$rootElt->att_names())."\n";
    # $rootElt->set_atts(
    #     { month => $att1Val, year => $att2Val, day => $att3Val});
    $rootElt->set_att(day   => $att3Val);
    $rootElt->set_att(month => $att1Val);
    $rootElt->set_att(year  => $att2Val);

    print "after new set\n
            Attributes are: ".join(',',$rootElt->att_names())."\n";
}#end of changeTagAttrOrderHandler

__DATA__
<item>
<ait:process-info>
<ait:date-delivered year="2010" month="02" day="09"/>
<ait:date-sort year="2008" month="1" day="1"/>
<ait:status type="core" state="new" stage="S300"/>
</ait:process-info>
</item>