net.sf.saxon.sort
Class LowercaseFirstComparer

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

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable, java.util.Comparator

public class LowercaseFirstComparer
extends java.lang.Object
implements java.util.Comparator, java.io.Serializable

A Comparer used for comparing keys

Author:

Michael H. Kay

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

LowercaseFirstComparer(java.util.Comparator base)

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 java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface java.util.Comparator

equals

Constructor Detail

LowercaseFirstComparer

public LowercaseFirstComparer(java.util.Comparator base)

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 interface java.util.Comparator

Returns:

<0 if a0 if a>b

Throws:

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