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nsIXULSortService

IID:F29270C8-3BE5-4046-9B57-945A84DFF132
Inherits From:nsISupports

A service used to sort the contents of a XUL widget.

This interface is intended to be used as a service. To create an object implementing this interface: 

var obj = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/xul/xul-sort-service;1"].
            getService(Components.interfaces.nsIXULSortService);

This interface is implemented by the following components:

Methods

void sort ( nsIDOMNode node , AString sortKey , AString sortDirection )

void sort ( nsIDOMNode node , AString sortKey , AString sortDirection )

Sort the contents of the widget containing aNode using aSortKey as the comparison key, and aSortDirection as the direction.

Arguments:
node: A node in the XUL widget whose children are to be sorted.
sortKey: The value to be used as the comparison key.
sortDirection: May be either natural to return the contents to their natural (unsorted) order, ascending to sort the contents in ascending order, or descending to sort the contents in descending order.

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