Pod::Index::Builder(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				  Pod::Index::Builder(3pm)

NAME

       Pod::Index::Builder - Build a pod index

SYNOPSIS

	   use Pod::Index::Builder;

	   my $p = Pod::Index::Builder->new(
	       pi_base => $base_path,
	   );
	   for my $file (@ARGV) {
	       $p->parse_from_file($file);
	   }

	   $p->print_index;

DESCRIPTION

       This is a subclass of Pod::Parser that reads POD and outputs nothing.  However, it saves the position of every X<> entry it sees. The index
       can be retrieved as a hashref, or printed in a format that is understandable by Pod::Index::Search.

METHODS

       new The constructor, inherited from Pod::Parser. The only optional argument that  cares about is "pi_base". If given, it is used as a base
	   when converting pathnames to package names. For example, if "pi_path" = "lib", the filename lib/Pod/Index.pm will turn into
	   "Pod::Index", instead of the undesirable "lib::Pod::Index".

       pod_index
	   Retrieves the index as a hashref. The hash keys are the keywords contained in the X<> tags, normalized to lowercase; the values are
	   array references of Pod::Index::Entry objects.

       print_index
	       $parser->print_index($fh);
	       $parser->print_index($filename);
	       $parser->print_index();

	   Prints the index to the given output filename or filehandle (or STDOUT by default). The format is tab-delimited, with the following
	   columns:

	       1) keyword
	       2) podname
	       3) line number
	       4) context (title of section containing this entry)

	   The index is sorted by keyword in a case-insensitive way.

VERSION

       0.14

SEE ALSO

       Pod::Index, Pod::Index::Entry, Pod::Index::Search, Pod::Parser, perlpod

AUTHOR

       Ivan Tubert-Brohman <itub@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2005 Ivan Tubert-Brohman. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
       the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.10.0							    2005-10-16						  Pod::Index::Builder(3pm)