com.novell.xml.dom
Class DocumentOrderComparator

java.lang.Object
  com.novell.xml.dom.DocumentOrderComparator

All Implemented Interfaces:

Comparator

public class DocumentOrderComparator

extends Object

implements Comparator

Class implementing the Comparator interface for DOM-level 1 nodes. This class imposes a document-ordering on nodes. This will also impose a stable order on nodes from different documents (i.e., they have different owner documents)

Constructor Summary

DocumentOrderComparator()

Method Summary

int	compare(Object o1, Object o2) Compare first node with second node for document order.
protected static int	compareDocs(Document doc1, Document doc2) Compare to different documents and get a stable order

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface java.util.Comparator

equals

Constructor Detail

DocumentOrderComparator

public DocumentOrderComparator()

Method Detail

compare

public int compare(Object o1,
                   Object o2)

Compare first node with second node for document order.

Specified by:

compare in interface Comparator

Parameters:

o1 - first node

o2 - second node

Returns:

< 0 if o1 comes before o2 in document order == 0 if o1 is at same position in document order as o2 (which can only happen if nodes are the same node) > 0 if o1 comes after o2 in document order

compareDocs

protected static int compareDocs(Document doc1,
                                 Document doc2)

Compare to different documents and get a stable order

Parameters:

doc1 - The left-hand-side document

doc2 - The right-hand-side document

Returns:

< 0 if doc1 comes before doc2, > 0 if doc2 comes before doc1