NAME

Pod::Tree::PerlPod - translate Perl PODs to HTML

SYNOPSIS

  $perl_map = Pod::Tree::PerlMap->new;
  $perl_pod = Pod::Tree::PerlPod->new( $perl_dir, $HTML_dir, $perl_map, %opts );
  $perl_pod->scan;
  $perl_pod->index;
  $perl_pod->translate;
  
  $top = $perl_pod->get_top_entry;

DESCRIPTION

"Pod::Tree::PerlPod" translates Perl PODs to HTML. It does a recursive subdirectory search through $perl_dir to find PODs.

"Pod::Tree::PerlPod" generates a top-level index of all the PODs that it finds, and writes it to HTML_dir"/pod.html".

"Pod::Tree::PerlPod" generates and uses an index of the PODs that it finds to construct HTML links. Other modules can also use this index.

METHODS

$perl_pod = "new" "Pod::Tree::PerlPod" $perl_dir, $HTML_dir, $perl_map, %options

Creates and returns a new "Pod::Tree::PerlPod" object.

$perl_dir is the root of the Perl source tree.

$HTML_dir is the directory where HTML files will be written.

$perl_map maps POD names to URLs.

%options are passed through to "Pod::Tree::HTML".

$perl_pod->"scan";

Does a recursive subdirectory search through $perl_dir to locate PODs. Each POD that is located is entered into $perl_map.

$perl_pod->"index"

Generates a top-level index of all the PODs. The index is written to HTML_dir"/pod.html".

$perl_pod->"translate"

Translates each POD found by "scan" to HTML. The HTML pages are written to HTML_dir, in a subdirectory hierarchy that mirrors the the Perl source distribution.

$perl_pod->"get_top_entry"

Returns a hash reference of the form

  { URL         => $URL,
    description => $description }

"Pod::Tree::PerlTop" uses this to build a top-level index of all the Perl PODs.

LINKING

"Pod::Tree::PerlPod" indexes PODs by the base name of the POD file. To link to perlsub.pod, write

    L<perlsub>

REQUIRES

    5.005;
    File::Find;
    HTML::Stream;
    IO::File;
    Pod::Tree::HTML;
    Pod::Tree::PerlUtil;

EXPORTS

Nothing.

AUTHOR

Steven McDougall, swmcd@world.std.com