Question

I have a xml documents with following tags

          <User>aaaa</User>
          <User>bbbb</User>
          <User>cccc</User>
          <User>dddd</User>
          <User>eeee</User>
          <User>cccc</User>
          <User>uuuu</User>

While iterating it using for loop the data is not coming in order

eg:

Some times getting

aaaa
bbbb
cccc
dddd

and some time it shows like this

uuuu
bbbb
cccc
dddd

How can i iterate in sequential manner ? Or provide name of any sequential xml parsers.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Here is an example where the results reflect the original ordering of the elements in the source XML document:

for $x in /*/*
  return
    $x

When this XQuery is performed on the following document (the provided XML fragment, wrapped into a single top element to make it a well-formed XML document):

<t>
    <User>aaaa</User>
    <User>bbbb</User>
    <User>cccc</User>
    <User>dddd</User>
    <User>eeee</User>
    <User>cccc</User>
    <User>uuuu</User>
</t>

the result is:

<User>aaaa</User>
<User>bbbb</User>
<User>cccc</User>
<User>dddd</User>
<User>eeee</User>
<User>cccc</User>
<User>uuuu</User>