org.apache.xalan.xsltc.dom

Class NodeSortRecord

public abstract class NodeSortRecord extends Object

Base class for sort records containing application specific sort keys

Field Summary
static int	COMPARE_ASCENDING
static int	COMPARE_DESCENDING
static int	COMPARE_NUMERIC
static int	COMPARE_STRING

Constructor Summary
	NodeSortRecord(int node) This constructor is run by a call to ClassLoader in the makeNodeSortRecord method in the NodeSortRecordFactory class.
	NodeSortRecord()

Method Summary
int	compareDocOrder(NodeSortRecord other)
int	compareTo(NodeSortRecord other) Compare this sort element to another.
abstract String	extractValueFromDOM(DOM dom, int current, int level, AbstractTranslet translet, int last) Extract the sort value for a level of this key.
Collator[]	getCollator() Returns the array of Collators used for text comparisons in this object.
int	getNode() Returns the node for this sort object
void	initialize(int node, int last, DOM dom, SortSettings settings) This method allows the caller to set the values that could not be passed to the default constructor.

Field Detail

COMPARE_ASCENDING

public static final int COMPARE_ASCENDING

COMPARE_DESCENDING

public static final int COMPARE_DESCENDING

This constructor is run by a call to ClassLoader in the makeNodeSortRecord method in the NodeSortRecordFactory class. Since we cannot pass any parameters to the constructor in that case we just set the default values here and wait for new values through initialize().

NodeSortRecord

public NodeSortRecord()

Method Detail

compareDocOrder

public final int compareDocOrder(NodeSortRecord other)

compareTo

public int compareTo(NodeSortRecord other)

Compare this sort element to another. The first level is checked first, and we proceed to the next level only if the first level keys are identical (and so the key values may not even be extracted from the DOM) !!!!MUST OPTIMISE - THIS IS REALLY, REALLY SLOW!!!!