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com.icl.saxon.sort
Class LowercaseFirstComparer


java.lang.Object

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public class LowercaseFirstComparer
extends Comparer

A Comparer used for comparing keys

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.

Overrides:: 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