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In a Flex webapp, is there an easy way to go about applying a sort to the children of an XML element, based on the children's attributes? Example follows below: XMLListCollection: <blockquote> <code><a anotherProp="ABCDE"></code>   <code><e prop="AB">1</element></code>   <code><e prop="BC">2</element></code> <code></a></code> <code><a anotherProp="FGEH"></code>   <code><e prop="HF">3</element></code>   <code><e prop="AD">4</element></code>   <code><e prop="AC">5</element></code> <code></a></code> </blockquote> I would like to sort the <code><e></code> elements, within each <code><a></code> element separately, according to their "prop" attribute. My code for generating the array containing the <code><a></code> elements is along the lines of: <pre><code>for each(var node:XML in initialInput:XMLListCollection){ if(node.localName()=="a"){ //I was hoping to be able to sort the <e> children of the node variable here xmlListCollectionVar.addItem(node); } } </code></pre> At the end I would like the <code><a></code>'s to remain in their defined order, but their <code><e></code> children to be sorted based on the "prop" attribute. So far if I try: <blockquote> node.children().sort=someSortVar </blockquote> where someSortVar has its fields set to: <blockquote> SortFields("e.@prop",...) </blockquote> I get an exception about a null value. Any way to convert the children list to XMLListCollection, sort it and integrate it back into the node variable? Thanks for any replies.
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Flex sorting of XMLListCollection subelements
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1. COSolved by finding code on the Adobe Flex forums.
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