NAME

Pod::Tree::PerlBin - translate program PODs to HTML

SYNOPSIS

  $perl_map = new Pod::Tree::PerlMap;
  $perl_bin = new Pod::Tree::PerlBin $perl_dir, $HTML_dir, $perl_map, %opts;

  $perl_bin->scan(@path);
  $perl_bin->index;
  $perl_bin->translate;

  $top = $perl_bin->get_top_entry;

DESCRIPTION

Pod::Tree::PerlBin translates program PODs to HTML.

It searches for programs in a list of directories (typically a PATH), and searches for PODs withing the programs. Only text (-T) files are considered.

Pod::Tree::PerlBin generates a top-level index of all the program PODs, and writes it to HTML_dir/bin.html.

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

METHODS

$perl_bin = new Pod::Tree::PerlBin $perl_dir, $HTML_dir, $perl_map, %options

Creates and returns a new Pod::Tree::PerlBin object.

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

$perl_map maps program names to URLs.

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

The $perl_dir argument is included for consistency with the other Pod::Tree::Perl* modules, but is currently unused.

$perl_bin->scan(@path)

Scans all the directories in @path for program PODs. Only text (-T) files are considered. The search does not recurse through subdirectories.

Each POD that is located is entered into $perl_map.

$perl_bin->index

Generates a top-level index of all the program PODs, and writes it to HTML_dir/bin.html.

$perl_bin->translate

Translates each program POD found by scan to HTML. The HTML pages are written to HTML_dir.

$perl_bin->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::PerlBin expects the second paragraph of the POD to have the form

    name - description

and enters name into $perl_map. To link to a program POD from another POD, write

    L<name>

REQUIRES

    5.005
    File::Find
    HTML::Stream
    Pod::Tree
    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.