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

Author:

Michael H. Kay

Constructor Summary

LowercaseFirstComparer()

Method Summary

int	compare(java.lang.Object a, java.lang.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(java.lang.Object a,
                   java.lang.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:

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