How to sort an xml Based on Attribute "Name"

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Employees>
 <Employee EmpId="1'" Name="Sam" />
 <Employee EmpId="2" Name="Lucy"/>
 <Employee EmpId="3" Name="Kate"/>
 <Employee EmpId="4" Name="Chris"/>
 <Employee EmpId="5" Name="David"/>
 <Employee EmpId="6" Name="Zolar"/>
 <Employee EmpId="7" Name="Shannon"/>
</Employees>

Hello All ,
Based on Name Attribute selected i have to display the xml in sorted order how shall i do this?

Thanks In Advance

Posted 16-May-12 18:57pm

yeshgowda

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Sandeep Mewara 17-May-12 1:20am

Why? can you share some story around why are you doing it and when are you going to use it?

yeshgowda 18-May-12 0:06am

It was just an assignment :) i searched in google how to sort based on attribute.I never got an answer. hence i asked the question

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Sunny_Kumar_ · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-16T20:28:00

Hi,

You may try XPathNavigator and XPathExpression

using System;
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.XPath;

namespace TestApp_Console_3
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load("Test.xml");
XPathNavigator nav = doc.CreateNavigator();
XPathExpression exp = nav.Compile("Employees/Employee");
exp.AddSort("@Name", XmlSortOrder.Ascending, XmlCaseOrder.None, "", XmlDataType.Text);

foreach (XPathNavigator t in nav.Select(exp))
{
Console.WriteLine(t.OuterXml);
}
Console.ReadLine();
}
}
}