NAME

       Pod::Tree::PerlTop - generate a top-level index for Perl PODs

SYNOPSIS

         $perl_map = Pod::Tree::PerlMap->new;
         $perl_top = Pod::Tree::PerlTop->new( $perl_dir, $HTML_dir, $perl_map, %opts );

         $perl_top->index(@translators);
         $perl_top->translate;

         $top = $perl_top->get_top_entry;

DESCRIPTION

       "Pod::Tree::PerlTop" generates a top-level index for Perl PODs.

       It also translates perl.pod to perl.html The translator is specially hacked to insert
       links into the big verbatim paragraph that lists all the other Perl PODs.

METHODS

       $perl_top = "new" "Pod::Tree::PerlTop" $perl_dir, $HTML_dir, $perl_map, %options
           Creates and returns a new "Pod::Tree::PerlTop" 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 POD names to URLs.  "Pod::Tree::PerlTop" uses it to resolve links in
           the perl.pod page.

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

       $perl_top->"index"(@translators)
           Generates a top-level index of all the PODs.  The index is written to
           HTML_dir"/index.html".

           @translators is a list of other "Pod::Tree::Perl*" translator objects.  "index" makes
           a "get_top_entry" call on each of them to obtain URLs and descriptions of the pages
           that it links to.

       $perl_top->"translate"
           Translates the perl.pod file to HTML.  The HTML page is written to
           HTML_dir"/pod/perl.html"

       $perl_top->"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.

REQUIRES

           5.005;
           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.