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com.icl.saxon.sort
Class Compare_en


java.lang.Object

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public class Compare_en
extends TextComparer

A Comparer used with lang="en". Note this only does anything intelligent with characters in ISO 8859/1, which are mapped to their unaccented equivalents

Fields inherited from class com.icl.saxon.sort.TextComparer

DEFAULT_CASE_ORDER, LOWERCASE_FIRST, UPPERCASE_FIRST

Constructor Summary

Compare_en()


Method Summary

int compare(java.lang.Object a, java.lang.Object b)
          Compare two string objects, in three phases: (a) ignoring accents and case (b) if still equal, ignoring case (c) if still equal, taking case into account

Comparer setCaseOrder(int caseOrder)
          Set case order

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

Compare_en


public Compare_en()

Method Detail

compare


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

Compare two string objects, in three phases: (a) ignoring accents and case (b) if still equal, ignoring case (c) if still equal, taking case into account

Overrides:: compare in class Comparer

Returns:: <0 if a0 if a>b

setCaseOrder


public Comparer setCaseOrder(int caseOrder)

Description copied from class: TextComparer

Set case order

Overrides:: setCaseOrder in class TextComparer

Following copied from class: com.icl.saxon.sort.TextComparer

Parameters:: caseOrder - one of DEFAULT_CASE_ORDER, LOWERCASE_FIRST, or UPPERCASE_FIRST. Indicates whether upper case letters precede or follow lower case letters in the ordering
Returns:: either this or a different Comparer that will be used to perform the comparisons. This allows the TextComparer to delegate the comparison to a Comparer dedicated to a specific case order.