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XPath::Literal(3)     User Contributed Perl Documentation    XPath::Literal(3)

NAME

       XML::XPath::Literal - Simple string values.

DESCRIPTION

       In XPath terms a Literal is what we know as a string.

API

       new($string)

       Create a new Literal object with the value in $string. Note that &quot;
       and &apos; will be converted to " and ' respectively. That is not part
       of the XPath specification, but I consider it useful. Note though that
       you have to go to extraordinary lengths in an XML template file (be it
       XSLT or whatever) to make use of this:

               <xsl:value-of select="&quot;I'm feeling &amp;quot;sad&amp;quot;&quot;"/>

       Which produces a Literal of:

               I'm feeling "sad"

       value()

       Also overloaded as stringification, simply returns the literal string
       value.

       cmp($literal)

       Returns the equivalent of perl's cmp operator against the given
       $literal.



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