com.icl.saxon.sort
Class UppercaseFirstComparer

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

public class UppercaseFirstComparer

extends Comparer

A Comparer used for comparing keys

Constructor Summary

UppercaseFirstComparer()

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 uppercase 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

UppercaseFirstComparer

public UppercaseFirstComparer()

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 uppercase 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