Enforce attribute order?

I'm using HTMLpurifier in combination with FCKeditor, and PEAR's Text_Diff to power a proprietary, HTML-based wiki solution.

Unfortunately, FCK has a nasty habit of reversing attribute order on tags. So

<a href="x" title="j">

becomes

<a title="j" href="x">

after editing in FCK; editing again gets you back to

<a href="x" title="j">

.

This results in text_diff seeing a change on every tag with more than 1 attribute, on every wiki edit, meaning wiki diffs are unreadable.

My question is this: how hard would it be to have HTML purifier enforce an arbitrary attribute order? (e.g., alphabetical, so that 'href' always comes before 'title')

That's... weird. O.o

Try this patch:

Index: HTMLPurifier/Generator.php
===================================================================
--- HTMLPurifier/Generator.php	(revision 1646)
+++ HTMLPurifier/Generator.php	(working copy)
@@ -141,6 +141,7 @@
      */
     public function generateAttributes($assoc_array_of_attributes, $element) {
         $html = '';
+        ksort($assoc_array_of_attributes);
         foreach ($assoc_array_of_attributes as $key => $value) {
             if (!$this->_xhtml) {
                 // remove namespaced attributes

I'll add proper support for it in 3.1.0.

Finally got a chance to test this today, and it works great.

Any chance you'll slip a formal version of this feature into a future release?

Thanks!

Yeah, I should've, but I forgot to. Will do so in 3.1.2.

Committed as 24f6db6. You'll need to use the %Output.SortAttr directive.