Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

I'm using XML files to store certian options for a program I'm making. The only problem though is that it seems as though the NamedNodeMap you get from calling node.getAttributes has the attributes in sorted order.

Namely it's sorted alphabetically.

This is not at all what I would like, it's pretty important that the attributes be in the order I wrote them, not sorted.

Is there another way I can do this?

I could always just have a text entry for the Attribute types, like
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<root>
AttributeType_1, AttributeType_2
<whatever AttributeType_1="whatever" AttributeType_2>
#And so on.
</root>

Or I could do any number of variations on that theme.