Child Order Not Maintained with Different Tags

[nlevitt]

The claim was made that jxmlease does not have the same problem as xmltodict on martinblech/xmltodict#182. But that does not seem to be true. 😭

>>> import jxmlease
>>> s = '''
... <foo>
...   <a>one</a>
...   <b>two</b>
...   <a>three</a>
... </foo>
... '''
>>> print(jxmlease.parse(s).emit_xml())
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<foo>
    <a>one</a>
    <a>three</a>
    <b>two</b>
</foo>

[stacywsmith]

My apologies! I do consider this a bug. jxmlease should handle this situation. Unfortunately, this project is no longer part of may day job so it may be several weeks before I can look at resolving this issue.

[fedorov]

Would be great to have this fixed...

[rsmekala]

I looked into the issue, the parsed_xml object is attached below.

{'foo': {'a': XMLListNode(xml_attrs=OrderedDict(), value=[XMLCDATANode(xml_attrs=OrderedDict(), value='one'), XMLCDATANode(xml_attrs=OrderedDict(), value='three')]),
         'b': XMLCDATANode(xml_attrs=OrderedDict(), value='two')}}

According to me, to achieve the desired results XMLListNode should also have another attribute to remember element <b>. Then, the same would have to be used while emitting the XML. This would take a lot of effort to achieve the desired result this way.

@stacywsmith Do you have any other ideas to achieve the use-case ??