Preserve order of attributes when modifying with minidom

Question

Is there a way I can preserve the original order of attributes when processing XML with minidom?

Say I have: <color red="255" green="255" blue="233" /> when I modify this with minidom the attributes are rearranged alphabetically blue, green, and red. I'd like to preserve the original order.

I am processing the file by looping through the elements returned by elements = doc.getElementsByTagName('color') and then I do assignments like this e.attributes["red"].value = "233".

Answer 1

Is there a way I can preserve the original order of attributes when processing XML with minidom?

With minidom no, the datatype used to store attributes is an unordered dictionary. pxdom can do it, though it is considerably slower.

Answer 2

I've ended up using the lxml library instead of minidom.