net.sf.saxon.sort
Class SortedGroupIterator

java.lang.Object
  net.sf.saxon.sort.SortedIterator
      net.sf.saxon.sort.SortedGroupIterator

All Implemented Interfaces:

LastPositionFinder, LookaheadIterator, SequenceIterator, GroupIterator, Sortable

public class SortedGroupIterator
extends SortedIterator
implements GroupIterator

A SortedGroupIterator is a modified SortedIterator. It sorts a sequence of groups, and is itself a GroupIterator. The modifications retain extra information about the items being sorted. The items are each the leading item of a group, and as well as the item itself, the iterator preserves information about the group: specifically, an iterator over the items in the group, and the value of the grouping key (if any).

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface net.sf.saxon.om.SequenceIterator

GROUNDED, LAST_POSITION_FINDER, LOOKAHEAD

Constructor Summary

SortedGroupIterator(XPathContext context, GroupIterator base, SortKeyEvaluator sortKeyEvaluator, AtomicComparer[] comparators, InstructionInfoProvider origin)

Method Summary

AtomicValue	getCurrentGroupingKey() Get the grouping key of the current group
SequenceIterator	iterateCurrentGroup() Get an iterator over the members of the current group, in population order.

Methods inherited from class net.sf.saxon.sort.SortedIterator

compare, current, getAnother, getLastPosition, getProperties, hasNext, next, position, setHostLanguage, swap

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface net.sf.saxon.om.SequenceIterator

current, getAnother, getProperties, next, position

Constructor Detail

SortedGroupIterator

public SortedGroupIterator(XPathContext context,
                           GroupIterator base,
                           SortKeyEvaluator sortKeyEvaluator,
                           AtomicComparer[] comparators,
                           InstructionInfoProvider origin)

Method Detail

getCurrentGroupingKey

public AtomicValue getCurrentGroupingKey()

Description copied from interface: GroupIterator

Get the grouping key of the current group

Specified by:

getCurrentGroupingKey in interface GroupIterator

Returns:

the current grouping key in the case of group-by or group-adjacent, or null in the case of group-starting-with and group-ending-with

iterateCurrentGroup

public SequenceIterator iterateCurrentGroup()
                                     throws XPathException

Description copied from interface: GroupIterator

Get an iterator over the members of the current group, in population order. This must always be a clean iterator, that is, an iterator that starts at the first item of the group.

Specified by:

iterateCurrentGroup in interface GroupIterator

Returns:

an iterator over all the members of the current group, in population order.

Throws:

XPathException