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Pod::Tree::PerlPod(3pm) 				User Contributed Perl Documentation				   Pod::Tree::PerlPod(3pm)

NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

	 $perl_map = new Pod::Tree::PerlMap;
	 $perl_pod = new Pod::Tree::PerlPod $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.

SEE ALSO

       "Pod::Tree::HTML", "Pod::Tree::PerlMap",

AUTHOR

       Steven McDougall, swmcd@world.std.com

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2000 by Steven McDougall.	This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as
       Perl.

perl v5.10.1							    2004-10-11						   Pod::Tree::PerlPod(3pm)