NAME

pod2wiki - A utility to convert Pod documents to Wiki format.

SYNOPSIS

pod2wiki [--style --noerrata --help --man] podfile [outfile]

    Options:
        --style      wiki style (defaults to wiki. See --help)
        --noerrata   don't generate a "POD ERRORS" section
        --help       brief help message
        --man        full documentation

OPTIONS

podfile

The input file that contains the Pod file to be converted. It can also be stdin.

outfile

The converted output file in wiki format. Defaults to stdout if not specified.

--style or -s

Sets the wiki style of the output. If no style is specified the program defaults to wiki. The available options are:

wiki

This is the original Wiki format as used on Ward Cunningham's Portland repository of Patterns. The formatting rules are given at http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TextFormattingRules

kwiki

This is the format as used by Brian Ingerson's CGI::Kwiki: http://search.cpan.org/dist/CGI-Kwiki/

usemod

This is the format used by the Usemod wikis. See: http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiFormat

twiki

This is the format used by TWiki wikis. See: http://www.twiki.org/

wikipedia or mediawiki

This is the format used by Wikipedia and MediaWiki wikis. See: http://www.wikipedia.org/

--noerrata or -noe

Don't generate a "POD ERRORS" section at the end of the document. Equivalent to the Pod::Simple::no_errata_section() method.

--help or -h

Print a brief help message and exits.

--man or -m

Prints the manual page and exits.

DESCRIPTION

This program is used for converting Pod text to Wiki text.

Pod is Perl's Plain Old Documentation format. See man perlpod or perldoc perlpod.

A Wiki is a user extensible web site. It uses very simple mark-up that is converted to Html.

For an introduction to Wikis see: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiGettingStartedFaq and http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiWikiWebFaq