how can i arrange data alphabetically?

[visiontec]

How can i arrange data in an xml file alphabetically?

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<name>>Matt Daimon</name>
<name>Kate Winsilet</name>
<name>Martha Stewarts</name>
<name>Will Smith</name>
<name>Britiny Spears</name>
<name>Jenifer Lopez</name>
<name>Jenifer Aniston</name>
</Names>

Plz any sort of help will be gr8!

[Heath Stewart]

That's a rather ambiqous question. Do you want to have it sorted in the file and rewritten? You can do that with an XSL Transform that looks like so:

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" standalone="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="Names">
<xsl:element name="Names">
<xsl:apply-templates select="Name">
<xsl:sort select="."/>
</xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="Name">
<xsl:element name="Name">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

To transform the XML, you can do something simple like this:

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.XPath;
using System.Xml.Xsl;
 
class Test
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
if (args.Length != 2) Environment.Exit(1);
Transform(args[0], args[1]);
}
 
static void Transform(string xml, string xsl)
{
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load(xml);
 
XslTransform tran = new XslTransform();
tran.Load(xsl);
 
tran.Transform(doc, null, Console.Out, null);
}
}

If you just want to read the data in and sort it, you can do something like this:

using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.IO;
using System.Xml;
 
class Test
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
if (args.Length != 1) Environment.Exit(1);
Sort(args[0]);
}
 
static void Sort(string file)
{
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load(file);
 
XmlNodeList nodes = doc.DocumentElement.SelectNodes("/Names/Name");
string[] names = new string[nodes.Count];
int i=0;
foreach (XmlNode node in nodes)
names[i++] = node.InnerText;
 
Array.Sort(names, Comparer.Default);
foreach (string name in names)
Console.WriteLine(name);
}
}

There's practically an infinite amount of ways you can sort this data - it just depends on your needs. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Software Design Engineer Developer Division Sustained Engineering Microsoft [My Articles]