XML::XP...:Literal(3)

🌸 NAME 🌸

Welcome to the XML::XP...:Literal(3) page, bestie — aka XML::XPathEngine::Literal. Simple string values. That's the whole assignment: a tiny Literal object whose main-character trait is holding a string. 💅

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Okay so in XPath terms, a Literal is literally what we know as a string. That's the vibe. No extra lore. ✨

✨ API ✨

🎀 new($string) 🎀

Creates a brand-new Literal object with the value in $string. 🫶

Important glow-up notice: " and ' get converted to " and ', respectively. That's not part of the XPath specification, but the author considers it useful. 💖

That said, to actually make use of this in an XML template file (be it XSLT or whatever), you have to go to extraordinary lengths. Like, truly. 😭 Check it:

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

And boom, that gives you a Literal of:

I'm feeling "sad"

🦋 value() 🦋

Also overloaded as stringification. It simply returns the literal string value. That's it. Iconic, low-effort, effective. 👑

🌈 cmp($literal) 🌈

Returns the equivalent of perl's cmp operator against the given $literal. So you hand it a $literal, and it does the cmp thing. No cap. 🔥

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mwah 💖 this page is from perl v5.42.0, dated 2013-06-04, and it's the XML::XP...:Literal(3) manual from User Contributed Perl Documentation. Periodt. 🫶