net.sf.saxon.sort
Class LowercaseFirstComparer

java.lang.Object
  net.sf.saxon.sort.LowercaseFirstComparer

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, StringCollator

public class LowercaseFirstComparer
extends Object
implements StringCollator, Serializable

A Comparer used for comparing keys

Author:

Michael H. Kay

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

LowercaseFirstComparer(StringCollator base)

Method Summary

int	compareStrings(String a, String b) Compare two string objects: case is irrelevant, unless the strings are equal ignoring case, in which case lowercase comes first.
Object	getCollationKey(String s, Platform platform) Get a collation key for two Strings.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

LowercaseFirstComparer

public LowercaseFirstComparer(StringCollator base)

Method Detail

compareStrings

public int compareStrings(String a,
                          String b)

Compare two string objects: case is irrelevant, unless the strings are equal ignoring case, in which case lowercase comes first.

Specified by:

compareStrings in interface StringCollator

Parameters:

a - the first string

b - the second string

Returns:

<0 if a0 if a>b

Throws:

ClassCastException - if the objects are of the wrong type for this Comparer

getCollationKey

public Object getCollationKey(String s,
                              Platform platform)

Get a collation key for two Strings. The essential property of collation keys is that if two values are equal under the collation, then the collation keys are compare correctly under the equals() method.

Specified by:

getCollationKey in interface StringCollator