Hi Laura,

Your assumption about ordering of nodes and edges is correct, see the warning at: https://tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#graphml

For your use case it seems that you can simply edit the nodes and edges out of order and now and then save an ordered version of the graph using the sort function of your editor. If you do a lot of editing, it is probably more convenient to write a custom csv import script for networkx and then save as graphml.

Best wishes,    Marc