NAME

       Lire::ReportParser::AsciiDocBookFormatter - Lire::ReportParser subclass which formats
       description.

SYNOPSIS

       To format DocBook:

           use Lire::ReportParser::AsciiDocBookFormatter qw/dbk2txt/;

           my $txt = dbk2txt( "<para>Test</para>" );

       In XML Report processors :

           package MyParser;

           use base qw/ Lire::ReportParser::AsciiDocBookFormatter Lire::ReportParser /;

           sub new {
               my $self = shift->SUPER::new( @_ );

               $self->init_docbook_formatter( @_ );

               return $self;
           }

           sub handle_description {
               my ( $self, $desc ) = @_;

               print $desc;

               return;
           }

DESCRIPTION

       This package implements methods that can handle the content of "description" elements and
       it can be used by a subclass of Lire::ReportParser. Client only have to inherit from this
       module so that a handle_description() method is available to process the text formatted
       DocBook description.

       This module also provide a convenient dbk2txt() function which can be used to format a
       string containing DocBook elements into an ASCII equivalent.

USING Lire::ReportParser::AsciiDocBookFormatter

       Lire::ReportParser processors that would like to work with text version of the description
       should inherit from Lire::ReportParser::AsciiDocBookFormatter in addition to
       Lire::ReportParser. If they override the description_start(), description_end()methods,
       they must link to their parents' version using "SUPER::".

       Additionnally, they should merge the value elements_spec() in their elements_spec()
       implementation.

       The Lire::ReportParser::AsciiDocBookFormatter should be listed before Lire::ReportParser
       in the @ISA. The AsciiDocBookFormatter doesn't inherit directly from Lire::ReportParser so
       that it can be used in multiple inheritance scenario.

       The subclass should call the init_docbook_formatter() method from their constructor method
       to initialize the DocBookFormatter module.

   init_docbook_formatter( %params )
       The initializer recognizes some parameters that can be used to control the behavior of the
       DocBook handling:

       columns
           The number of columns in which the DocBook text should be formatted.  Defaults to 72.

   dbk_start_processing()
       Initializes the parser's structure for formatting DocBook XML as ASCII.  This is used from
       the description_start implementation.

   dbk_end_processing()
       Cleans the parser structure. This is used from the description_end() implementation.

   handle_description( $description )
       This method is invoked after the closing tag of the "description" element is encountered.
       The $description contains the description formatted in plain text.

FORMATTING DocBook STRINGS

       If you have DocBook content in a string, like you can obtain from some of the Report
       Specifications object, you can format it in plain text using the dbx2txt() function.

   dbk2txt( $docbook_str, [$columns] )
       Returns a plain text version of the DocBook XML fragment $docbook_str. The "columns"
       parameter sets the number of columns in which the DocBook text should be formatted.

       This method will die() in case of error.

SEE ALSO

       Lire::ReportParser(3pm)

VERSION

       $Id: AsciiDocBookFormatter.pm,v 1.13 2006/07/23 13:16:31 vanbaal Exp $

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2001-2004 Stichting LogReport Foundation LogReport@LogReport.org

       This file is part of Lire.

       Lire is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
       General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
       the License, or (at your option) any later version.

       This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY;
       without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
       See the GNU General Public License for more details.

       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program
       (see COPYING); if not, check with http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html.

AUTHOR

       Francis J. Lacoste <flacoste@logreport.org>