Pod::Simple::HTMLBatch - convert several Pod files to several HTML files
perl -MPod::Simple::HTMLBatch -e 'Pod::Simple::HTMLBatch::go' in out
This module is used for running batch-conversions of a lot of HTML documents
This class is NOT a subclass of Pod::Simple::HTML (nor of bad old Pod::Html) -- although it uses Pod::Simple::HTML for doing the conversion of each document.
The normal use of this class is like so:
use Pod::Simple::HTMLBatch; my $batchconv = Pod::Simple::HTMLBatch->new; $batchconv->some_option( some_value ); $batchconv->some_other_option( some_other_value ); $batchconv->batch_convert( \@search_dirs, $output_dir );
Note that this class also provides
(but does not export) the function Pod::Simple::HTMLBatch::go.
This is basically just a shortcut for Pod::Simple::HTMLBatch->batch_convert(@ARGV).
It's meant to be handy for calling from the command line.
However, the shortcut requires that you specify exactly two command-line
arguments, indirs and outdir.
Example:
% mkdir out_html
% perl -MPod::Simple::HTMLBatch -e Pod::Simple::HTMLBatch::go @INC out_html
(to convert the pod from Perl's @INC
files under the directory ../htmlversion)
(Note that the command line there contains a literal atsign-I-N-C. This is handled as a special case by batch_convert, in order to save you having to enter the odd-looking "" as the first command-line parameter when you mean "just use whatever's in @INC".)
Example:
% mkdir ../seekrut
% chmod og-rx ../seekrut
% perl -MPod::Simple::HTMLBatch -e Pod::Simple::HTMLBatch::go . ../htmlversion
(to convert the pod under the current dir into HTML
files under the directory ../htmlversion)
Example:
% perl -MPod::Simple::HTMLBatch -e Pod::Simple::HTMLBatch::go happydocs .
(to convert all pod from happydocs into the current directory)
\@dirs.
This specifies that the director "somedir" is the input. (This can be an absolute or relative path, it doesn't matter.)
A common value you might want would be just "." for the current directory:
$batchconv->batch_convert( "." , ...);
This specifies that you want the dirs "somedir", "somother", and "also"
scanned, just as if you'd passed the arrayref
[qw( somedir someother also)]. Note that a ":"-separator is normal
under Unix, but Under MSWin, you'll need 'somedir;someother;also'
instead, since the pathsep on MSWin is ";" instead of ":". (And
that is because ":" often comes up in paths, like
"c:/perl/lib".)
(Exactly what separator character should be used, is gotten from
$Config::Config{'path_sep'}, via the Config module.)
This specifies that you want the HTML output to go into the current directory.
(Note that a missing or undefined value means a different thing in
the first slot than in the second. That's so that batch_convert()
with no arguments (or undef arguments) means "go from @INC, into
the current directory.)
Note that you can also call batch_convert as a class method,
like so:
Pod::Simple::HTMLBatch->batch_convert( ... );
That is just short for this:
Pod::Simple::HTMLBatch-> new-> batch_convert(...);
That is, it runs a conversion with default options, for whatever inputdirs and output dir you specify.
The following are all accessor methods -- that is, they don't do anything on their own, but just alter the contents of the conversion object, which comprises the options for this particular batch conversion.
We show the "put" form of the accessors below (i.e., the syntax you use
for setting the accessor to a specific value). But you can also
call each method with no parameters to get its current value. For
example, $self->contents_file() returns the current value of
the contents_file attribute.
select'd) about how the conversion
is going. If 0, no progress information is printed.
If 1 (the default value), some progress information is printed.
Higher values print more information.
This specifies what string should be put at the beginning of the contents page. The default is a string more or less like this:
<html> <head><title>Perl Documentation</title></head> <body class='contentspage'> <h1>Perl Documentation</h1>
This specifies what string should be put at the end of the contents page. The default is a string more or less like this:
<p class='contentsfooty'>Generated by Pod::Simple::HTMLBatch v3.01 under Perl v5.008 <br >At Fri May 14 22:26:42 2004 GMT, which is Fri May 14 14:26:42 2004 local time.</p>
require or use that class so that's it's loaded before
Pod::Simple::HTMLBatch tries loading it.
TODO
call add_css($someurl) to add stylesheet as alternate
call add_css($someurl,1) to add as primary stylesheet
call add_javascript
subclass Pod::Simple::HTML and set $batchconv->html_render_class to
that classname
and maybe override
$page->batch_mode_page_object_init($self, $module, $infile, $outfile, $depth)
or maybe override
$batchconv->batch_mode_page_object_init($page, $module, $infile, $outfile, $depth)
If you want to do some kind of big pod-to-HTML version with some
particular kind of option that you don't see how to achieve using this
module, email me (sburke@cpan.org) and I'll probably have a good idea
how to do it. For reasons of concision and energetic laziness, some
methods and options in this module (and the dozen modules it depends on)
are undocumented; but one of those undocumented bits might be just what
you're looking for.
Pod::Simple, Pod::Simple::HTMLBatch, perlpod, perlpodspec
Copyright (c) 2004 Sean M. Burke. All rights reserved.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
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.
Sean M. Burke sburke@cpan.org