net.sf.saxon.sort
Class SortedTupleIterator

java.lang.Object
  extended by net.sf.saxon.sort.SortedIterator
      extended by net.sf.saxon.sort.SortedTupleIterator
All Implemented Interfaces:
LastPositionFinder, LookaheadIterator, SequenceIterator, Sortable

public class SortedTupleIterator
extends SortedIterator

A SortedTupleIterator is a modified SortedIterator. Whereas the sorted iterator used by XSLT computes the sort key of each item in a sequence, using that item as the context item, the SortedTupleIterator used by XQuery precomputes the sort keys from scratch; they do not need to be a function of the item being sorted.

The items returned by the SortedTupleIterator are instance of ObjectValue, which encapsulate a Value representing the contents of the tuple.


Field Summary
 
Fields inherited from interface net.sf.saxon.om.SequenceIterator
GROUNDED, LAST_POSITION_FINDER, LOOKAHEAD
 
Fields inherited from interface net.sf.saxon.om.SequenceIterator
GROUNDED, LAST_POSITION_FINDER, LOOKAHEAD
 
Fields inherited from interface net.sf.saxon.om.SequenceIterator
GROUNDED, LAST_POSITION_FINDER, LOOKAHEAD
 
Constructor Summary
SortedTupleIterator(XPathContext context, SequenceIterator base, AtomicComparer[] comparators)
          Create a sorted tuple iterator
 
Method Summary
 
Methods inherited from class net.sf.saxon.sort.SortedIterator
compare, current, getAnother, getLastPosition, getProperties, hasNext, next, position, setHostLanguage, swap
 
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait
 

Constructor Detail

SortedTupleIterator

public SortedTupleIterator(XPathContext context,
                           SequenceIterator base,
                           AtomicComparer[] comparators)
Create a sorted tuple iterator

Parameters:
context - the dynamic context
base - the base iterator, which returns the unsorted tuples. Each tuple is represented by an ObjectValue which wraps an array of Value objects. The first Value object represents the tuple itself. Subsequent Value objects represent the sort key values, in order.
comparators - the comparators used for comparing sort keys


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