During the transformation of elements from one domain.xml to another we noticed a problem in the past week regarding the order of children that are added to a element using appendChild.

Given an element X which has child element types a,b,c and a DTD definition:

<!ELEMENT X (a* , b*, c*)>

and a target xml with an exsisting element X like:

<X>
 <a> <a/>
 <b <b/>
 <c> <c/>
<X/>

calling X.appendChild(a) should (and previous to recent builds did) yield the following:

<X>
 <a> <a/>
 <a> <a/>
 <b <b/>
 <c> <c/>
<X/>

but in the current JAXP we always get the added child appended to the end of the parent.

<X>
 <a> <a/>
 <b <b/>
 <c> <c/>
 <a> <a/>
<X/>

this causes the XML to fail DTD conformance and in the case of domain.xml, causes appservDAS.exe to crash on startup.
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