diff --git a/xml/src/processing/xml/XMLElement.java b/xml/src/processing/xml/XMLElement.java
index 35588a05c..13eb0f4a7 100644
--- a/xml/src/processing/xml/XMLElement.java
+++ b/xml/src/processing/xml/XMLElement.java
@@ -470,7 +470,7 @@ public class XMLElement
      * @param filename
      * @param parent
      */
-    public XMLElement(String filename, PApplet parent) {
+    public XMLElement(PApplet parent, String filename) {
         this();
         try {
             Reader r = parent.createReader(filename);