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how does yed order the nodes in a tree

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I understand that yed does oerder the noded according to layout stategy,

but
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The order of the direct children of an inner tree node is not specified.

However, in many simple cases the algorithm will order the children by their previous x-coordinate:

by [yWorks] (161k points)
It would be really useful if it was possible to sort alphabetically. I have this big stacked tree I'm adding to a technical document (similar to a file system overview). And sorted in lexicographic order would be a tremendous help for the reader to locate the nodes.
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