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

Answer 2

I tried the following code and it is working (C#) you can get values as below

        var doc = new XmlDocument();
        doc.Load("c:\\users\\ozgur\\sample.xml");
        var nav = doc.CreateNavigator();
        var node = nav.SelectSingleNode("response").SelectSingleNode("lst[@name=\"facet_counts\"]").SelectSingleNode("lst[@name=\"facet_fields\"]").SelectSingleNode("lst[@name=\"professions_raw_nl\"]").Select("int");

        var sorted = new SortedDictionary<string, string>();
        while (node.MoveNext())
        {
            var name = node.Current.SelectSingleNode("@name").Value;
            var value = node.Current.Value;
            sorted.Add(name, value);
        }

        foreach (var item in sorted)
        {
            item.Key.ToString();
            item.Value.ToString();
        }

Answer 3

Since all answers seem to work with Linq and I just wanted to use regular VB.NET I now added each node in an Arraylist and used the regular Array.Sort() on it. Does the trick.