NAME

podtohtml - convert POD documentation to HTML

SYNOPSIS

 podtohtml [-bhqvIS] [-i index] [-d outdirectory] [-s sfx] <pods or directories of pods...>

DESCRIPTION

podtohtml converts POD documentation to HTML. It is based on the generic Pod::Parser. It works by making two passes over the selected pods, the fisrt pass uses Pod::Links to pre-scan for L<> links and =head1 NAME sections, and then a second to build a tree of HTML::Elements for each POD and calling the as_HTML method on the resulting tree.

The Generated HTML uses relative links.

OPTIONS

The following command line options affect the behaviour:

-b

Create broken links

-d outdirectory

The directory into which the HTML is written.

-q

Run as quietly as possible

-v

Verbose - print messages about files being processed.

-s suffix

Set the suffix for generated files. Default is '.html' for HTML files and '.ps' for PostScript files.

-i index

Build an index file in index.

-I

Search perl's @INC for pods. Heuristics implemented in Pod::Find attempt to restrict search to files related to the version of perl executing the script.

-S

Search directory that is specified in Config as install location of scripts for pods.

-p

Generate PostScript rather than HTML. This is done using HTML::FormatPS and font sizes etc. are not yet specifiable.

-D

Print Data::Dumper dump of generated tree rather than generating HTML (for debugging).

EXAMPLES

Build HTML for all installed modules and associated scripts :

   podtohtml -I -S -d "/home/WWW/perl" -i "/home/WWW/perl/index.html"

That takes rather a long time (22 minutes on my 60MHz SPARCStation10).

Build HTML for unistalled Tk extension:

   podtohtml -d "/home/WWW/Tk8" -i /home/WWW/TkIndex.html ~/Tk8/pod 

BUGS

• Active links are only built for pods processed in the same invocation.
• Large documents are not split.
• HTML::FormatPS's style does not suit Nick's taste.
• The index file needs more structure.

SEE ALSO

Pod::Parser Pod::Links Pod::HTML_Elements HTML::Element HTML::FormatPS

AUTHOR

Nick Ing-Simmons <nick@ni-s.u-net.com>