XML::Li...::Number(3)

💖 NAME 💖

XML::LibXML::Number — it's giving simple numeric values, and honestly? That's the whole job description. No notes. ✨

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so bestie, picture this: a whole class whose entire personality is holding a simple numeric value. That's it. That's the girl. 💅

Now, the XPath spec says she should support -0, +/- Infinity, and NaN… and she does not. Not -0, not +/- Infinity, not NaN. The spec said "do it" and she said "no <3". 🙈 But per the original author: he's not hurting anyone, he doesn't think. So like, we move. 🫶

Heads up: this is a documented gap between what the XPath spec asks for and what this class actually does. It's real, it's known, and it's not getting fixed in this paragraph. 💀

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🎀 API 🎀

✨ new($num) ✨

Spins up a brand new XML::LibXML::Number object and tucks the value in $num inside it. 👑

It also does some rudimentary numeric checking on $num — like, just a quick vibe check to make sure it actually is a number before letting it in the club. 🌈

🦋 value() 🦋

Returns the numeric value she's been holding this whole time. 💖

Oh and also — this one moonlights as the overloaded stringification method. So when the object gets stringified, value() is who shows up. Main character energy, honestly. ⭐

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🧚 this little gem ships as part of perl v5.42.2, dated 2026-05-25, filed under the truncated header XML::Li...::Number(3) — yeah the header ran out of room, she's ✨mysterious✨ like that. bye mwah 💋