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odd order of things being returned - not sure why - help me debug?

Hi all.
Here's my problem - excuse me for asking odd but i don't know how else to explain it.

I have this method
public ArrayList getReportPageTitles() {
ArrayList coursePageTitles = new ArrayList();

XmlNodeList courseInfoFileNameNodes = this.SelectNodes("dts/course_info/FileSet/File");
foreach (XmlNode courseInfoFileNameNode in courseInfoFileNameNodes)
{
coursePageTitles.Add(courseInfoFileNameNode.Attributes["pageName"].Value);
logger.Debug("test: " + courseInfoFileNameNode.Attributes["pageName"].Value);
}
return coursePageTitles;
}
02_Brand_Portfolio_Guidelines
assessment
03_Analysis
01_What_is_the_marketing_way

however, that same xml pulls out earlier in a course list in the right order, which is
01_
02_ ..
03_ ...
assessment

can anyone just point me in the right direction at least, cause i'm beyond stumped.
thanks.
blu.

Carl Tawn

Can you post a snippet of your XML that contains the nodes in question ?

blue-genie

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i think the xml gets generated dynamically, there's no physical xml file, and i know we are using some xslt - i'll have a nosey round and see if I find anything.

blue-genie

ASKER

i've just noticed the xml node structure is the wrong way round. so i'm guessing need to tackle where the xml gets written.

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i've discovered this method
protected ArrayList addFileNames(XmlNode item, ArrayList fileList) {
XmlNode resource = null;
if (item.Attributes["identifierref"] != null){
resource=this.ResourcesNode.SelectSingleNode("./default:resource[@identifier=\""+item.Attributes["identifierref"].Value+"\" and @adlcp:scormtype=\"sco\" and @href]" , this.nameSpaceManager);
if (resource!=null)
{
fileList.Add(resource.Attributes["href"].Value);
}
}
else
{
//Blank item header entry needed?
XmlNodeList subList = item.SelectNodes("./default:item", this.nameSpaceManager);
foreach (XmlNode subItem in subList)
{
this.addFileNames(subItem, fileList);
}
}
return fileList;
}

and I think it's this method that's putting things into fileList wrong.

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ok, i take that back, it's doing right, back to the drawing board.

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blue-genie

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what's sorting going to do? will it return the items alphabetically?
i've pinpointed the method that's mixing things up so i'm gonna have a nosey round there today and see what i come up with.

gbzhhu

Yes, sorting will reutn items alphabetically

blue-genie

ASKER

which i don't want.
okay, here's where i'm at.
System.Collections.Hashtable scoDetailsTable = courseManager.ScoDetails;
//i've checked the ScoDetails is a hashTable, and the items are in the right order
System.Collections.IDictionaryEnumerator enumerator = scoDetailsTable.GetEnumerator();

while (enumerator.MoveNext())
{

XmlNode fileNode = this.CreateNode(XmlNodeType.Element, "File", "");
fileNode.Attributes.Append(this.CreateAttribute("ident")).Value = enumerator.Key.ToString();
fileNode.Attributes.Append(this.CreateAttribute("pageName")).Value = enumerator.Value.ToString();
//this next line prints out now in the wrong order ......
System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show("filenode: " +enumerator.Value.ToString());
fileSetNode.AppendChild(fileNode);
}

please please please help!!!!
blu

gbzhhu

Pls post here the full xml (the correct order one) and I will try to reproduce/fix the problem

blue-genie

ASKER

hi thanks, i've come to the conclusion that I can't use a hashtable so will be rewriting the code to use an arraylist.
thanks for your efforts all.