NAME

Pod::GroveBuilder - use Pod::Parser to create SGML::Grove objects

SYNOPSIS

  use Pod::GroveBuilder;
  $grove = Pod::GroveBuilder->new ($sysid);

DESCRIPTION

Pod::GroveBuilder uses Pod::Parser to create SGML::Grove objects. The resulting SGML::Grove objects can then be used by any module that supports them, including writing SGML/XML output (SGML::Writer), formatting the POD to Ascii or HTML (Quilt), or using SGML::Grove iterators to perform multiple passes over the POD or working with multiple PODs at the same time.

Pod::GroveBuilder->new ($sysid) creates a grove from a $sysid, a $sysid may be a file name or a FileHandle object.

GroveBuilder will build a grove that is hierarchical, for example, `head2' sections will be contained inside of `head1' sections, and `item' paragraphs will be contained within lists, etc.

  HEAD1
    "text"
    HEAD2
      LIST
        ITEM
          "text"
        ITEM
          "text"
    HEAD2
     "text"

See SGML::Grove for details on using the grove returned by Pod::GroveBuilder.

AUTHOR

Ken MacLeod, ken@bitsko.slc.ut.us

SEE ALSO

perl(1), Pod::Parser(3), SGML::Grove(3), SGML::Writer(3), Quilt(3).