Sorting an XML in Java

I'd use XSLT, it has probs with sorting dates that you'll need to work round, simplest way if you can control it is to have sortable date format like yyyymmdd

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">

  <xsl:template match="root">
    <xsl:copy>
        <xsl:apply-templates>
           <xsl:sort data-type="number" select="date"/>
        </xsl:apply-templates>
    </xsl:copy>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="*">
      <xsl:copy>
          <xsl:apply-templates/>
      </xsl:copy>
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>