# XML::LibXML::Literal - phpMan

## NAME
    [XML::LibXML::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 "
    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)
    Returns the equivalent of perl's cmp operator against the given
    $literal.