XOM API for Processing XML with Java

["Orenchak, James" <James.Orenchak AT norcom.de>]

Hallo,

I'm starting to work with the XOM API.  Thanks Harold, for creating it and
thanks Ken Cochrane for the fine introduction page in internet!  I have a
xml file which gets randomly updated.  In production I'll probably have a
java bean holding the information that the xml file currently holds.  I want
the output to be sorted according to the value of a certain child element.
Here's a very short example of the input data:

<?xml version="1.0"?> 
<importantdates>
<boughthouse> 
<date month="December" day="1" year="2002"/> 
<time hour="10" minute="17" second="33" zone="CET"/> 
</boughthouse>
<metwife>
<date month="June" day="1" year="1986"/> 
<time hour="22" minute="17" second="33" zone="CET"/> 
</metwife>
<born>
<date month="May" day="14" year="1960"/> 
<time hour="14" minute="15" second="03" zone="EST"/> 
</born>

What's the best way to sort this data by date and time, so the output is
chronological?  I could do it with XSLT or with Java code.  What do the
experts suggest?

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best Regards

James Orenchak 
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