[Xmlstar-devel] Re-Sorting XML

[Jamie J. <jam...@gm...>]

Hi Folks,

In version control, I am storing some XML configuration documents that are
machine-generated. The machine sometimes arbitrarily changes the order of
some elements, and that leads to spurious diffs. I'd like to scrub those
files as part of my config downloading routines by introducing certain
sorts. (I don't much care what they are, as long as they're consistent.
Ascending alphabetic sort, based on some specified XPath level would be
fine.)

Can XMLStarlet update XML with sorted elements? (Or is some other utility
more appropriate?)

If it's easy, I'll probably implement it; otherwise, I'll probably learn to
live with the spurious diffs.

Thanks,
Jamie