NAME

Pod::Tree::PerlDist - translate Perl distribution documentation to HTML

SYNOPSIS

$perl_map  = new Pod::Tree::PerlMap;
$perl_dist = new Pod::Tree::PerlDist $perl_dir, $HTML_dir, $perl_map, %opts;

$perl_dist->scan;
$perl_dist->index;
$perl_dist->translate;

$top = $perl_dist->get_top_entry;

DESCRIPTION

Pod::Tree::PerlDist translates documents in the Perl distribution to HTML. These include Changes, README, and assored other files that appear in the top level of the Perl source tree.

Files that contain PODs are parsed as PODs; files that do not contain PODs are converted to HTML as preformatted text.

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

METHODS

$perl_dist = new Pod::Tree::PerlDist $perl_dir, $HTML_dir, $perl_map, %options

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

$perl_dir is the root of the Perl source tree.

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

$perl_map maps file names to URLs.

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

$perl_dist->scan

Scans the top level of the Perl source tree for documentation files. Files that do not generally contain user-level documentation, such as source files, are ignored. The search does not recurse through subdirectories.

Each file that is located is entered into $perl_map.

$perl_dist->index

Generates a top-level index of all the distribution documents, and writes it to HTML_dir/dist.html.

$perl_dist->translate

Translates each distribution document found by scan to HTML. The HTML pages are written to HTML_dir.

$perl_dist->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::PerlDist indexes files by their name. To link to a file named README.win32 write

L<README.win32>

REQUIRES

5.005;
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.