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: