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/** * Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Liferay, LLC. All rights reserved. * * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal * in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights * to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell * copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is * furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: * * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in * all copies or substantial portions of the Software. * * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE * AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER * LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, * OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE * SOFTWARE. */ package com.liferay.util.xml; import java.util.Comparator; import java.util.List; import org.dom4j.Attribute; import org.dom4j.Element; /** * <a href="ElementComparator.java.html"><b><i>View Source</i></b></a> * * @author Brian Wing Shun Chan * @version $Revision: 1.9 $ * */ public class ElementComparator implements Comparator { public int compare(Object obj1, Object obj2) { Element el1 = (Element) obj1; Element el2 = (Element) obj2; String el1Name = el1.getName(); String el2Name = el2.getName(); if (!el1Name.equals(el2Name)) { return el1Name.compareTo(el2Name); } String el1Text = el1.getTextTrim(); String el2Text = el2.getTextTrim(); if (!el1Text.equals(el2Text)) { return el1Text.compareTo(el2Text); } List el1Attrs = el1.attributes(); List el2Attrs = el2.attributes(); if (el1Attrs.size() < el2Attrs.size()) { return -1; } else if (el1Attrs.size() > el2Attrs.size()) { return 1; } for (int i = 0; i < el1Attrs.size(); i++) { Attribute attr = (Attribute) el1Attrs.get(i); int value = _compare(el2Attrs, attr, new AttributeComparator()); if (value != 0) { return value; } } List el1Elements = el1.elements(); List el2Elements = el2.elements(); if (el1Elements.size() < el2Elements.size()) { return -1; } else if (el1Elements.size() > el2Elements.size()) { return 1; } for (int i = 0; i < el1Elements.size(); i++) { Element el = (Element) el1Elements.get(i); int value = _compare(el2Elements, el, new ElementComparator()); if (value != 0) { return value; } } return 0; } public boolean shouldJoinChildren(Element element) { return false; } private int _compare(List list, Object obj, Comparator comparator) { int firstValue = -1; for (int i = 0; i < list.size(); i++) { Object o = list.get(i); int value = comparator.compare(obj, o); if (i == 0) { firstValue = value; } if (value == 0) { return 0; } } return firstValue; } }