NAME

       Pod::Tree::PerlPod - translate Perl PODs to HTML

SYNOPSIS

         $perl_map = new Pod::Tree::PerlMap;
         $perl_pod = new Pod::Tree::PerlPod $perl_dir, $HTML_dir, $perl_map, %opts;

         $perl_pod->scan;
         $perl_pod->index;
         $perl_pod->translate;

         $top = $perl_pod->get_top_entry;

DESCRIPTION

       "Pod::Tree::PerlPod" translates Perl PODs to HTML.  It does a recursive subdirectory
       search through $perl_dir to find PODs.

       "Pod::Tree::PerlPod" generates a top-level index of all the PODs that it finds, and writes
       it to HTML_dir"/pod.html".

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

METHODS

       $perl_pod = "new" "Pod::Tree::PerlPod" $perl_dir, $HTML_dir, $perl_map, %options
           Creates and returns a new "Pod::Tree::PerlPod" 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.

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

       $perl_pod->"scan";
           Does a recursive subdirectory search through $perl_dir to locate PODs. Each POD that
           is located is entered into $perl_map.

       $perl_pod->"index"
           Generates a top-level index of all the PODs.  The index is written to
           HTML_dir"/pod.html".

       $perl_pod->"translate"
           Translates each POD found by "scan" to HTML.  The HTML pages are written to HTML_dir,
           in a subdirectory hierarchy that mirrors the the Perl source distribution.

       $perl_pod->"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::PerlPod" indexes PODs by the base name of the POD file.  To link to
       perlsub.pod, write

           L<perlsub>

REQUIRES

           5.005;
           File::Find;
           HTML::Stream;
           IO::File;
           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.