Package com.icl.saxon.sort

Class DescendingComparer

java.lang.Object

com.icl.saxon.sort.Comparer

com.icl.saxon.sort.DescendingComparer

public class DescendingComparer
extends Comparer

A Comparer used for comparing descending keys

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
DescendingComparer(Comparer base)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
int	compare(Object a, Object b)	Compare two objects.

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 Details

DescendingComparer

public DescendingComparer(Comparer base)

Method Details

compare

public int compare(Object a,
 Object b)

Compare two objects.

Specified by:

compare in class Comparer

Returns:

<0 if a<b, 0 if a=b, >0 if a>b

Throws:

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