Hi:
I seem to remember that condor_status and condor_q when asked explicitly for a subset of class-ad attributes would return them in the order they were requested. It seems that this is no longer the case in 7.5.3.
For instance,
$ condor_status -xml -attr Name,Arch,State,Activity,OpSys
Would return something like this:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE classads SYSTEM "classads.dtd">
<classads>
<c>
...
<a n="Name"><s>zodiax.cs.uleth.ca</s></a>
<a n="Arch"><s>SUN4u</s></a>
<a n="State"><s>Unclaimed</s></a>
<a n="Activity"><s>Idle</s></a>
<a n="OpSys"><s>SOLARIS210</s></a>
...
</c>
...
</classads>
Instead I'm now seeing this:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE classads SYSTEM "classads.dtd">
<classads>
<c>
...
<a n="Name"><s>zodiax.cs.uleth.ca</s></a>
<a n="OpSys"><s>SOLARIS210</s></a>
<a n="State"><s>Unclaimed</s></a>
<a n="Arch"><s>SUN4u</s></a>
<a n="Activity"><s>Idle</s></a>
...
</c>
...
</classads>
Am I misremembering this?
-B