com.icl.saxon.sort
Class DescendingComparer

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

public class DescendingComparer

extends Comparer

A Comparer used for comparing descending keys

Constructor Summary

DescendingComparer(Comparer base)

Method Summary

int	compare(java.lang.Object a, java.lang.Object b) Compare two objects.

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

DescendingComparer

public DescendingComparer(Comparer base)

Method Detail

compare

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

Compare two objects.

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