NAME

pod2docbook - Convert POD data to DocBook SGML

SYNOPSIS

pod2docbook [--help] [--doctype=article|chapter|section|refentry] [--title=title] [--spaces=# spaces per indent level] [--fix-double-quotes] [--no-header] [infile [outfile]]

DESCRIPTION

pod2docbook converts files from pod format (see perlpod) to DocBook 4.2 SGML (see http://www.docbook.org/). The program itself is merely a driver for the Pod::DocBook class; if you're interested in details of pod-to-SGML translation see Pod::DocBook.

OPTIONS AND ARGUMENTS

[--help]

Print usage and exit.

[--doctype=article|chapter|section|refentry]

Specifies the document type for the output file; the default is section.

[--title=title]

Specifies the document title. The default is infile, if it is supplied, or empty string otherwise.

[--spaces=# spaces per indent level]

Specifies the number of spaces per indent level in the SGML output; the default is 2.

[--fix-double-quotes]

Replace pairs of double quotes in regular paragraphs with <quote> and </quote> (see Pod::DocBook for details).

[--no-header]

Omit the DOCTYPE line from the output.

infile

The name of the file from which to read pod source; if not supplied, STDIN is used for input.

outfile

The name of the file to which to write SGML; if not supplied, STDOUT is used for output.

SEE ALSO

perlpod, Pod::DocBook

AUTHOR

Nandu Shah <nandu@zvolve.com>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2004, Nandu Shah <nandu@zvolve.com>

This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself