Form Data Order in XML

How can you organize form data exported via XML Email Submit button? I would expect this data to follow the order within the XDP object heirarcy, however the results jump from object to object on different pages. Forget about mapping this to a database...in this case I just want the raw data to be merged via Acrobat and into a .CSV
Is there something I'm missing? Would I need an XML Schema...thats seems like overkill. By the way I created this on Designer 11 but have tried it in Design 8.2 as well. I would expect this to function just like this feature did with AcroForms.

Figured it out. You veterans will probably laugh, but I don't do a lot of this. I found a pallette called "Binding" and noticed a list of the fields there. Two were missing and they happened to be the ones that were out of order. I compared them to the ones that were there and the missing ones were marked global while the others were marked normal. I changed those two to normal, they showed up in the binding pallatte in the right order and my test worked just fine.
As usual, thanks to all.

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