FMETypeSorter

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Created by: Dmitri Bagh

This transformer sorts features by fme_type, area (area features only) and length (linear features only).

The transformer can be useful when features of different fme_type occupy the same layer (as in MapInfo), or when display order is irrelevant to layer structure (as in DGN). Areas (including ellipses) are output first, lines (including arcs) - second, points - third, text goes last.

Area features are also sorted by their size - bigger areas go below, smaller - on top of them. The same rule applies to lines - they are sorted by length.