defining xml output structure

Hi,

Is anybody aware of a way so that when we produce dcr as xml output (dcr-type="xml") we can control which tag would appear next in the sequence.

example:
{Content}
{Nexttag1}Some value{/Nexttag1}
{Nexttag2}Should appear in xml after first tag {/Nexttag2}
{/Content}

Basically any way of control the index value of the tags.

Thanks in advance for all suggestion.

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Sailesh

Anybody tried this ever??

ccprofessional

W3C's XML specification does not guarantee element order. Which IMHO is the root of the problem here.

Unless Interwoven provides an xml schema notation, it is upto the presentation layer to preserve order of xml elements

ccprofessional

For what it's worth, there's a good discussion of this topic (not related to Teamsite) here:

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-eleord.html

Adam Stoller

W3C's XML specification does not guarantee element order. Which IMHO is the root of the problem here.

Unless Interwoven provides an xml schema notation, it is upto the presentation layer to preserve order of xml elements

Unless you're trying to present the DCR's XML directly via CSS - or trying to parse it with non-XML-oriented Perl (or Java or ...) code - it really shouldn't matter what order they show up in - as references (XPath or otherwise) to the nodes in the XML file are independent of ordering. (I think this might be a paraphrasing of the article you (ccprofessional) referenced in your follow-up post).

So - back to the original question (from Sailesh) - why do you care what order they show up in within the DCR?

Sailesh

Unless you're trying to present the DCR's XML directly via CSS - or trying to parse it with non-XML-oriented Perl (or Java or ...) code - it really shouldn't matter what order they show up in - as references (XPath or otherwise) to the nodes in the XML file are independent of ordering. (I think this might be a paraphrasing of the article you (ccprofessional) referenced in your follow-up post).

So - back to the original question (from Sailesh) - why do you care what order they show up in within the DCR?

I know it shouldn't matter, but some how our Front End team want it the specific order. I don't see any logic in that but since they define the XML structure we have to produce the same and give it to them.

Thanks everyone for your response though.

jkm

add replicant numbers and ask ur portal team to extract the xml using numbers Smiley Wink

RajatChopra

You could also use an attribute 'index' within each element. The index value can drive what is the order of the element. That way, the UI team can read off the index attribute and retrieve the values.

Let me know if this sounds right...

-R