net.sf.saxon.sort
Class LowercaseFirstCollator

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

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, StringCollator

public class LowercaseFirstCollator
extends Object
implements StringCollator, Serializable

A StringCollator that sorts lowercase before uppercase.

Case is irrelevant, unless the strings are equal ignoring case, in which case lowercase comes first.

Author:

Michael H. Kay

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

LowercaseFirstCollator(StringCollator base)
Create a LowercaseFirstCollator

Method Summary

int	compareStrings(String a, String b) Compare two string objects: case is irrelevant, unless the strings are equal ignoring case, in which case lowercase comes first.
Object	getCollationKey(String s) Get a collation key for two Strings.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

LowercaseFirstCollator

public LowercaseFirstCollator(StringCollator base)

Create a LowercaseFirstCollator

Parameters:

base - the base collator, which determines how characters are sorted irrespective of case

Method Detail

compareStrings

public int compareStrings(String a,
                          String b)

Compare two string objects: case is irrelevant, unless the strings are equal ignoring case, in which case lowercase comes first.

Specified by:

compareStrings in interface StringCollator

Parameters:

a - the first string

b - the second string

Returns:

<0 if a0 if a>b

Throws:

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

getCollationKey

public Object getCollationKey(String s)

Get a collation key for two Strings. The essential property of collation keys is that if two values are equal under the collation, then the collation keys are compare correctly under the equals() method.

Specified by:

getCollationKey in interface StringCollator

Parameters:

s - the string whose collation key is required

Returns:

the collation key