XML::LibXML::Literal(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation XML::LibXML::Literal(3)

# [NAME](#NAME)

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

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

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

# [API](#API)

## [new($string)](#new%28$string%29)

Create a new Literal object with the value in $string. Note that " and ' 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($literal)](#cmp%28$literal%29)

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

2026-10-30 perl v5.44.0

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Document: XML::LibXML::Literal(3pm) from perl-xml-libxml 2.0212-r4 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://github.com/shlomif/perl-XML-LibXML