Re: re-ordering an instance to match a schema

Are you working with the HR-XML.org resume xml standards?

Ed Dodds

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Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 14:32:37 -0400
From: S Woodside <sbwoodside@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject:  re-ordering an instance to match a schema
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Hi there,

Some of you might remember that I was writing a small suite

of XSLT to

do roundtripping of XML instance data to HTML forms and back

again,

based on RNG (relax NG) schemas to define the forms. Well, I

actually

made some progress and have something that kinda-sorta works

now. One

issue though is that my code isn't smart enough to insert

new elements

in the "right" order*.

* where the "right" order is the order that things appear in

the schema

The reason that's important is that xslt I've seen (and

written ...)

often assumes that the instance XML will be in a certain

order and

outputs in that order too, so that in this case with resumes

I get job

history listed before the name and address ;-)

Is there XSLT out there, that I can use, that will take an

instance and

a schema and re-order the instance to match the schema? Does

that make

sense?

TIA,

simon

PS I still plan to release the source as open source when

if/when it's

ready

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