Making a datagrid display properly

Question

I am looking for an easy solution to make the datagrid
display correctly. I would assume there is a way to display the
data in the order of the xml document that is being loaded. Why
would the component disregard the file it is sent, doing extra
work, just to make it display in the wrong order? If I send XML
with the product ID first and the cost second, why should cost come
first? Is there any simple way to get around this maddnes (or do
other programmers think that losing control over display logic is
cool?).
Sorry if this seems jaded, but I have been looking for answer
for quite a while. I have tried adding datagridcolumns to the
datagrid object with no luck, etc. I don't see a solution will
someone please help?
Even if there is no solution, would someone at least comment
and say so, the last post I made about this had no one helping
either way. Please HELP!!!!

Answer 1

I understand that the data is coming back as an object proxy,
but it goes into the dataProvider the same(or such is my
assumption).
I am talking about the column order. If I feed this as a
church bus schedule:
<joblist>
<joblistitem>
<date>12-12-08</date>
<story>Amy</story>
<preach>Nathan</preach>
<cleanbus>Garry</cleanbus>
</joblistitem>
</joblist>
and have everything in the same order, I don't want
<cleanbus> column to be before the <date> column.
I should get columns :
date | story | preach | cleanbus
I know I can hard code the columns, but there may be someone
entering the jobs in a different order, or have different names for
the jobs, or have different jobs all together. They may even prefer
to have <week> or <Sunday> instead of <date>.
I tried using that code on the link :
http://www.cflex.net/showFileDetails.cfm?ObjectID=552
but am having some type casting problems, just seems like
there would be a simpler way doesn't it?