7. The computer of claim 3 , wherein execution of the programming by the processor configures the computer to perform further functions to: when generating the XML dimension hierarchy file: prefix a display name of each dimension node with a ranking that is an integer to determine display order of the items, wherein a low value integer receives a high ranking relative to a high value integer, and the high value integer receives a low ranking relative to the low value integer.
7. The computer of claim 3 , wherein execution of the programming by the processor configures the computer to perform further functions to: when generating the XML dimension hierarchy file: prefix a display name of each dimension node with a ranking that is an integer to determine display order of the items, wherein a low value integer receives a high ranking relative to a high value integer, and the high value integer receives a low ranking relative to the low value integer. 8. The computer of claim 7 , wherein the ranking is prefixed as a character data (CDATA) XML section.