After I load an XML file, can I sort it by node attribute

[bissatch]

Hi,

After loading an xml file, is it possible to sort it by attribute?

For example, I have the following xml file:
<xml...
<diary>
<entry date="2005-01-01">I went to the park</entry>
<entry date="2005-01-03">Sold the car today</entry>
<entry date="2005-01-02">Went for a stroll</entry>
</diary>
When I go to load this using PHP, I would use some this similar to
this:
$xmldoc = domxml_open_file('diary.xml', DOMXML_LOAD_DONT_KEEP_BLANKS);

$node = $xmldoc->document_element();
Before I go storming through the xml tree outputing along the way, can
I sort it by (in this case) date?

Cheers

Burnsy

[Tim Van Wassenhove]

On 2005-08-17, bi******@yahoo.co.uk <bi******@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

After loading an xml file, is it possible to sort it by attribute?

Why don't you perform a XSLT with <xsl:for-each order-by> ?

Another option could be to use parse_into_struct and then use of the
array_sort methods?

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Met vriendelijke groeten,
Tim Van Wassenhove <http://timvw.madoka.be>