Pod::Simple::SimpleTree(3pm)				 Perl Programmers Reference Guide			      Pod::Simple::SimpleTree(3pm)

NAME

       Pod::Simple::SimpleTree -- parse Pod into a simple parse tree

SYNOPSIS

	 % cat ptest.pod

	 =head1 PIE

	 I like B<pie>!

	 % perl -MPod::Simple::SimpleTree -MData::Dumper -e 
	    "print Dumper(Pod::Simple::SimpleTree->new->parse_file(shift)->root)" 
	    ptest.pod

	 $VAR1 = [
		   'Document',
		   { 'start_line' => 1 },
		   [
		     'head1',
		     { 'start_line' => 1 },
		     'PIE'
		   ],
		   [
		     'Para',
		     { 'start_line' => 3 },
		     'I like ',
		     [
		       'B',
		       {},
		       'pie'
		     ],
		     '!'
		   ]
		 ];

DESCRIPTION

       This class is of interest to people writing a Pod processor/formatter.

       This class takes Pod and parses it, returning a parse tree made just of arrayrefs, and hashrefs, and strings.

       This is a subclass of Pod::Simple and inherits all its methods.

       This class is inspired by XML::Parser's "Tree" parsing-style, although it doesn't use exactly the same LoL format.

METHODS

       At the end of the parse, call "$parser->root" to get the tree's top node.

Tree Contents
       Every element node in the parse tree is represented by an arrayref of the form: "[ elementname, \%attributes, ...subnodes... ]".  See the
       example tree dump in the Synopsis, above.

       Every text node in the tree is represented by a simple (non-ref) string scalar.	So you can test "ref($node)" to see whather you have an
       element node or just a text node.

       The top node in the tree is "[ 'Document', \%attributes, ...subnodes... ]"

SEE ALSO

       Pod::Simple

       perllol

       The "Tree" subsubsection in XML::Parser

SUPPORT

       Questions or discussion about POD and Pod::Simple should be sent to the pod-people@perl.org mail list. Send an empty email to
       pod-people-subscribe@perl.org to subscribe.

       This module is managed in an open GitHub repository, http://github.com/theory/pod-simple/ <http://github.com/theory/pod-simple/>. Feel free
       to fork and contribute, or to clone git://github.com/theory/pod-simple.git <git://github.com/theory/pod-simple.git> and send patches!

       Patches against Pod::Simple are welcome. Please send bug reports to <bug-pod-simple@rt.cpan.org>.

COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS

       Copyright (c) 2002 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

       Pod::Simple was created by Sean M. Burke <sburke@cpan.org>.  But don't bother him, he's retired.

       Pod::Simple is maintained by:

       o   Allison Randal "allison@perl.org"

       o   Hans Dieter Pearcey "hdp@cpan.org"

       o   David E. Wheeler "dwheeler@cpan.org"

perl v5.12.1							    2010-05-07					      Pod::Simple::SimpleTree(3pm)