Hi Terry
From: "Terry Steichen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Thanks for the feedback. Let me expand my underlying question a bit. If
I
> get all nodes in a document with doc.selectNodes("//*"), the nodelist that
> is returned is not in what might be called 'pretty print' order. For
> example, assume a document with the following structure:
>
> <doc>
> <aa>
> <xx/>
> <yy>
> <pp/>
> </yy>
> </aa>
> <bb>
> <xx/>
> <yy/>
> </bb>
> </doc>
>
> now, if I do a test.selectNodes("//*) and then loop through the results
> printing out node.getUniquePath(), what I'd
> like to see is something like:
>
> doc
> doc/aa
> doc/aa/xx
> doc/aa/yy
> doc/aa/pp
> doc/bb
> doc/bb/xx
> doc/bb/yy
>
> But that's not the order that typically comes out. I'm trying to figure
out
> some way to ensure this is the order shown (using selectNodes()). I
assume
> (you know what that acronym stands for!) that the sorting option for
> selectNodes() can do that, but am not sure how to accomplish it.
This is a current limitation of Jaxen; I think Jaxen is navigating the
document in bredth, rather than depth first leading to this issue. Hopefully
we'll be able to fix this soon.
James
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