Package com.icl.saxon.sort
Class Compare_en
- java.lang.Object
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- com.icl.saxon.sort.Comparer
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- com.icl.saxon.sort.TextComparer
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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- Author:
- Michael H. Kay
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Field Summary
Fields Modifier and Type Field Description (package private) int
caseOrder
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Fields inherited from class com.icl.saxon.sort.TextComparer
DEFAULT_CASE_ORDER, LOWERCASE_FIRST, UPPERCASE_FIRST
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Constructor Summary
Constructors Constructor Description Compare_en()
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Method Summary
All Methods Instance Methods Concrete Methods Modifier and Type Method Description 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 accountComparer
setCaseOrder(int caseOrder)
Set case order-
Methods inherited from class com.icl.saxon.sort.Comparer
setDataType, setOrder
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Method Detail
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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
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setCaseOrder
public Comparer setCaseOrder(int caseOrder)
Description copied from class:TextComparer
Set case order- Overrides:
setCaseOrder
in classTextComparer
- 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.
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