1XPath::Literal(3)     User Contributed Perl Documentation    XPath::Literal(3)
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NAME

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

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

12       new($string)
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14       Create a new Literal object with the value in $string. Note that "
15       and ' will be converted to " and ' respectively. That is not part
16       of the XPath specification, but I consider it useful. Note though that
17       you have to go to extraordinary lengths in an XML template file (be it
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20               <xsl:value-of select="&quot;I'm feeling &amp;quot;sad&amp;quot;&quot;"/>
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22       Which produces a Literal of:
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28       Also overloaded as stringification, simply returns the literal string
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31       cmp($literal)
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33       Returns the equivalent of perl's cmp operator against the given $lit‐
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38perl v5.8.8                       2001-06-12                 XPath::Literal(3)