com.icl.saxon.sort

Class LowercaseFirstComparer

java.lang.Object

com.icl.saxon.sort.Comparer

com.icl.saxon.sort.LowercaseFirstComparer

public class LowercaseFirstComparer
extends Comparer

A Comparer used for comparing keys

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
LowercaseFirstComparer()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
int	compare(Object a, Object b) Compare two string objects: case is irrelevant, unless the strings are equal ignoring case, in which case lowercase comes first.

Methods inherited from class com.icl.saxon.sort.Comparer

setDataType, setOrder

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

LowercaseFirstComparer

public LowercaseFirstComparer()

Method Detail

compare

public int compare(Object a,
          Object b)

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

Specified by:

compare in class Comparer

Returns:

<0 if a0 if a>b

Throws:

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