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Class CaseFirstCollator</H2>
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<DT><PRE>public class <B>CaseFirstCollator</B><DT>extends <A HREF="http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang">Object</A><DT>implements <A HREF="../../../../../net/sf/saxon/lib/StringCollator.html" title="interface in net.sf.saxon.lib">StringCollator</A>, <A HREF="http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/io/Serializable.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.io">Serializable</A></DL>
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A StringCollator that sorts lowercase before uppercase, or vice versa.
<p>Case is irrelevant, unless the strings are equal ignoring
case, in which case lowercase comes first.</p>
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<DT><B>Author:</B></DT>
<DD>Michael H. Kay</DD>
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<TD><CODE><B><A HREF="../../../../../net/sf/saxon/expr/sort/CaseFirstCollator.html#CaseFirstCollator(net.sf.saxon.lib.StringCollator, boolean)">CaseFirstCollator</A></B>(<A HREF="../../../../../net/sf/saxon/lib/StringCollator.html" title="interface in net.sf.saxon.lib">StringCollator</A> base,
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Create a CaseFirstCollator</TD>
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<CODE> boolean</CODE></FONT></TD>
<TD><CODE><B><A HREF="../../../../../net/sf/saxon/expr/sort/CaseFirstCollator.html#comparesEqual(java.lang.String, java.lang.String)">comparesEqual</A></B>(<A HREF="http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/String.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang">String</A> s1,
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Compare two strings for equality.</TD>
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<TD><CODE><B><A HREF="../../../../../net/sf/saxon/expr/sort/CaseFirstCollator.html#compareStrings(java.lang.String, java.lang.String)">compareStrings</A></B>(<A HREF="http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/String.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang">String</A> a,
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Compare two string objects: case is irrelevant, unless the strings are equal ignoring
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Get a collation key for two Strings.</TD>
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CaseFirstCollator</H3>
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public <B>CaseFirstCollator</B>(<A HREF="../../../../../net/sf/saxon/lib/StringCollator.html" title="interface in net.sf.saxon.lib">StringCollator</A> base,
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<DD>Create a CaseFirstCollator
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<DT><B>Parameters:</B><DD><CODE>base</CODE> - the base collator, which determines how characters are sorted irrespective of case<DD><CODE>upperFirst</CODE> - true if uppercase precedes lowercase, false otherwise</DL>
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compareStrings</H3>
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public int <B>compareStrings</B>(<A HREF="http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/String.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang">String</A> a,
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<DD>Compare two string objects: case is irrelevant, unless the strings are equal ignoring
case, in which case lowercase comes first.
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<DT><B>Specified by:</B><DD><CODE><A HREF="../../../../../net/sf/saxon/lib/StringCollator.html#compareStrings(java.lang.String, java.lang.String)">compareStrings</A></CODE> in interface <CODE><A HREF="../../../../../net/sf/saxon/lib/StringCollator.html" title="interface in net.sf.saxon.lib">StringCollator</A></CODE></DL>
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<DT><B>Parameters:</B><DD><CODE>a</CODE> - the first string<DD><CODE>b</CODE> - the second string
<DT><B>Returns:</B><DD><0 if a<b, 0 if a=b, >0 if a>b
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<DD>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
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<DT><B>Specified by:</B><DD><CODE><A HREF="../../../../../net/sf/saxon/lib/StringCollator.html#comparesEqual(java.lang.String, java.lang.String)">comparesEqual</A></CODE> in interface <CODE><A HREF="../../../../../net/sf/saxon/lib/StringCollator.html" title="interface in net.sf.saxon.lib">StringCollator</A></CODE></DL>
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<DT><B>Parameters:</B><DD><CODE>s1</CODE> - the first string<DD><CODE>s2</CODE> - the second string
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getCollationKey</H3>
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public <A HREF="http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang">Object</A> <B>getCollationKey</B>(<A HREF="http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/String.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang">String</A> s)</PRE>
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<DD>Get a collation key for two Strings. The essential property of collation keys
is that if two values are equal under the collation, then the collation keys are
compare correctly under the equals() method.
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<DT><B>Specified by:</B><DD><CODE><A HREF="../../../../../net/sf/saxon/lib/StringCollator.html#getCollationKey(java.lang.String)">getCollationKey</A></CODE> in interface <CODE><A HREF="../../../../../net/sf/saxon/lib/StringCollator.html" title="interface in net.sf.saxon.lib">StringCollator</A></CODE></DL>
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<DT><B>Parameters:</B><DD><CODE>s</CODE> - the string whose collation key is required
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