NAME

Pod::Perldoc::BaseTo - Base for Pod::Perldoc formatters

SYNOPSIS

    package Pod::Perldoc::ToMyFormat;
    use parent qw( Pod::Perldoc::BaseTo );
    ...

DESCRIPTION

This package is meant as a base of Pod::Perldoc formatters, like Pod::Perldoc::ToText, Pod::Perldoc::ToMan, etc.

It provides default implementations for the methods

    is_pageable
    write_with_binmode
    output_extension
    _perldoc_elem

The concrete formatter must implement

    new
    parse_from_file

SEE ALSO

perldoc

COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS

Copyright (c) 2002-2007 Sean M. Burke.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

AUTHOR

Current maintainer: Mark Allen "<mallen@cpan.org>"

Past contributions from: brian d foy "<bdfoy@cpan.org>" Adriano R. Ferreira "<ferreira@cpan.org>", Sean M. Burke "<sburke@cpan.org>"