com.icl.saxon.sort
Class DoubleComparer

java.lang.Object
  com.icl.saxon.sort.Comparer
      com.icl.saxon.sort.DoubleComparer

public class DoubleComparer
extends Comparer

A Comparer used for comparing keys that are Doubles

Author:

Michael H. Kay

Constructor Summary

DoubleComparer()

Method Summary

int	compare(java.lang.Object a, java.lang.Object b) Compare two String objects according to their numeric values

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

DoubleComparer

public DoubleComparer()

Method Detail

compare

public int compare(java.lang.Object a,
                   java.lang.Object b)

Compare two String objects according to their numeric values

Specified by:

compare in class Comparer

Returns:

<0 if a0 if a>b

Throws:

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