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Diego Calzadilla
Diego Calzadilla

Reputation: 309

lxml preserves attributes order?

I was writing my aplication using minidom but minidom does not preserve attribute order(sorts alphabetically), so I decided to do it using lxml.

However in the following lines of code I'm not getting the desired order:

import lxml.etree as ET
SATNS = "link_1"
NS = "link_2"
location_attribute = '{%s}schemaLocation' % NS
root = ET.Element('{%s}Catalogo' % SATNS, nsmap={'catalogocuentas':SATNS}, attrib=
   {location_attribute: 'http://www.sat.gob.mx/catalogocuentas'}, Ano="2014",       Mes="02",   TotalCtas="219", RFC="ALF040329CX6", Version="1.0")
print (ET.tostring(root, pretty_print=True))

This is what I'm expecting to get:

<catalogocuentas:Catalogo xmlns:catalogocuentas="link_1"
xmlns:xsi="link_2" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sat.gob.mx/catalogocuentas"
Ano="2014" Mes="02" TotalCtas="219" RFC="XXX010101XXX" Version="1.0">
</catalogocuentas:Catalogo>

Which is in the order that I filled in:

root=ET.element(...)

But I'm getting the next, that has no order:

<catalogocuentas:Catalogo xmlns:catalogocuentas="link_1" 
xmlns:xsi="link_2" RFC="ALF040329CX6" Version="1.0" 
Mes="02" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sat.gob.mx/catalogocuentas" Ano="2014" TotalCtas="219">
</catalogocuentas:Catalogo>

Is there a way to fix this problem?

Thanks in advance!!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1244

Answers (1)

Patrick Collins
Patrick Collins

Reputation: 10574

Dictionaries in Python are unordered. Keyword arguments are passed to functions by a dictionary traditionally named **kwargs, and so the order is lost. The function can't possibly know what order the arguments to ET.element came in.

As stated in this question, there isn't really any way to get this done. XML doesn't care about attribute order, so there isn't really any good reason to do it.

Upvotes: 3

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