XML::DOM sort

Murcia has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, confreres, I have a problem with XML::DOM.

In my XML file I have a tag named <function>

eg:

<function name='a' start='1'>
<function name='b' start='2'>
<function name='c' start='3'>
<function name='a' start='4'>
<function name='b' start='5'>

the code comes here, it prints unorded!

my $nodes = $data->getElementsByTagName('function');

  my $n = $nodes->getLength;

  for (my $i = 0; $i < $n; $i++)
 {
   my $node = $nodes->item ($i);
   my $start = $node->getAttributeNode ("start");
     print $start->getValue . "\n";
 }
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is it possible to sort, so that all with name a, then b, then c print out?

thanks

Murcia

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Re: XML::DOM sort by chromatic (Archbishop) on Jun 04, 2003 at 18:16 UTC
This is why I hate the (excessively verbose) DOM: `my @sorted = map { $_->[1] } sort { $a->[0] cmp $b->[0] } map { my $item = $nodes->item( $_ ); [ $item->getAttributeNode( 'name' )->getValue(), $item ] } 0 .. $nodes->getLength() ;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: XML::DOM sort by Murcia (Monk) on Jun 05, 2003 at 07:06 UTC
thanks that works nearly $nodes->getLength() -1 !! ;-) Murcia	[reply]