net.sf.saxon.lib

Interface StringCollator

All Known Subinterfaces:

SubstringMatcher

All Known Implementing Classes:

AlphanumericCollator, CaseFirstCollator, CodepointCollator, HTML5CaseBlindCollator, RuleBasedSubstringMatcher, SimpleCollation, UcaCollatorUsingJava

public interface StringCollator

This interface represents a "collation" as defined in XPath, that is, a set of rules for comparing strings

Note: an implementation of this interface that wraps a Java RuleBasedCollator is available: see RuleBasedSubstringMatcher.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	comparesEqual(UnicodeString s1, UnicodeString s2) Compare two strings for equality.
int	compareStrings(UnicodeString o1, UnicodeString o2) Compare two strings
AtomicMatchKey	getCollationKey(UnicodeString s) Get a collation key for a String.
java.lang.String	getCollationURI() Get the collation URI.

Method Detail

getCollationURI

java.lang.String getCollationURI()

Get the collation URI. It must be possible to use this collation URI to reconstitute the collation

Returns:

a collation URI that can be used to reconstruct the collation when an XSLT package is reloaded.

compareStrings

int compareStrings(UnicodeString o1,
                   UnicodeString o2)

Compare two strings

Parameters:

o1 - the first string

o2 - the second string

Returns:

0 if the strings are considered equal, a negative integer if the first string is less than the second, a positive integer if the first string is greater than the second

comparesEqual

boolean comparesEqual(UnicodeString s1,
                      UnicodeString s2)

Compare two strings for equality. This may be more efficient than using compareStrings and testing whether the result is zero, but it must give the same result

Parameters:

s1 - the first string

s2 - the second string

Returns:

true if and only if the strings are considered equal,

getCollationKey

AtomicMatchKey getCollationKey(UnicodeString s)

Get a collation key for a String. The essential property of collation keys is that if (and only if) two strings are equal under the collation, then comparing the collation keys using the equals() method must return true.

Parameters:

s - the string whose collation key is required

Returns:

the collation key