Sort XML nodes alphabetically on attribute name

Question

I have an XML document for which I want to sort specific nodes alphabetically.

XML document

Answer 1

if you are using .Net>=3.5 then you can use linq to do this for you like this

var xmlString = "YOUR XML STRING";
var doc = XDocument.Parse(xmlString);

var list = doc. Descendants("int").select(n=>new {Name = n.Attribute("name").Value, Value = n.Value});
var sortedList = list.OrderBy(l=>l.Name);

EDIT not a pro in VB but try this - pls there may be syntactical errors in here

dim xmlString as string
xmlString = "YOUR XML STRING"
dim doc as XDocument()
doc = XDocument.Parse(xmlString)
dim list = doc.Descendants("int").select(n=>new {Name = n.Attribute("name").Value, Value = n.Value}).OrderBy(l=>l.Name)

LINQ stands for Language Integrated Query.. and is a lot easier and Uniform that the thing you are using currently.. you can read more here