Hello everyone,

What I'm looking to do is to sorta a Java List or Map in the order the items are in a XML File.

For Example

I have a list of function names as so:

1. functionOne
2. functionThree
3. functionTwo

The XML File looks like this:

<xml>
  <function>functionOne</function>
  <function>functionTwo</function>
  <function>functionThree</function>
</xml>

So I would like to sort the list so the function names are as so:

1. functionOne
2. functionTwo
3. functionThree

Now Im trying to do this for Variables as well, so there are around 500+ unique 'items'.

Does anyone have any idea how I can go about doing this? Now for the file that determines that sort order doesn't have to be XML it just what I use the most, it can be anything that can get the job done.

Thanks in advance for your time.