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    12 <concept id="GUID-6C07F513-66D5-5901-94A6-9ADA16987225" xml:lang="en"><title>Key

    13 comparison</title><shortdesc>This document describes how text and descriptor keys can be compared.</shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>

    14 <p>Text and descriptor keys can be compared in one of three ways:</p>

    15 <ul>

    16 <li id="GUID-7AE9A7C2-A8DE-5743-BBE9-FEF0175F12C5"><p>keys are folded for

    17 the purpose of comparison</p> </li>

    18 <li id="GUID-BD40774A-4B66-5498-B23C-CC16A3AA5B32"><p>keys are compared using

    19 the collation rules for the current locale</p> </li>

    20 <li id="GUID-D5666F26-DDAC-5703-84D1-FCFF2A59E8E7"><p>keys are compared normally.</p> </li>

    21 </ul>

    22 <p>Numeric keys are compared arithmetically in the usual way.</p>

    23 <section id="GUID-00C4EF8F-0ABF-44D2-AFE8-64A1FBA091E9"><title>See also</title> <p><xref href="GUID-C501E703-E39D-598C-B962-7A32AC9091DD.dita">Folding

    24 and collation</xref>.</p> </section>

    25 </conbody></concept>