Pod::Simple::SimpleTreUser Contributed Perl DocumentPod::Simple::SimpleTree(3)NAMEPod::Simple::SimpleTree-- parse Pod into a simple parse tree
SYNOPSIS
% cat ptest.pod
=head1 PIE
I like B<pie>!
% perl -MPod::Simple::SimpleTree -MData::Dumper -e \
"print Dumper(Pod::Simple::SimpleTree->new->parse_file(shift)->root)" \
ptest.pod
$VAR1 = [
'Document',
{ 'start_line' => 1 },
[
'head1',
{ 'start_line' => 1 },
'PIE'
],
[
'Para',
{ 'start_line' => 3 },
'I like ',
[
'B',
{},
'pie'
],
'!'
]
];
DESCRIPTION
This class is of interest to people writing a Pod processor/formatter.
This class takes Pod and parses it, returning a parse tree made just of
arrayrefs, and hashrefs, and strings.
This is a subclass of Pod::Simple and inherits all its methods.
This class is inspired by XML::Parser's "Tree" parsing-style, although
it doesn't use exactly the same LoL format.
METHODS
At the end of the parse, call "$parser->root" to get the tree's top
node.
Tree Contents
Every element node in the parse tree is represented by an arrayref of
the form: "[ elementname, \%attributes, ...subnodes... ]". See the
example tree dump in the Synopsis, above.
Every text node in the tree is represented by a simple (non-ref) string
scalar. So you can test "ref($node)" to see whather you have an ele-
ment node or just a text node.
The top node in the tree is "[ 'Document', \%attributes, ...subnodes...
]"
SEE ALSO
Pod::Simple
perllol
The "Tree" subsubsection in XML::Parser
COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS
Copyright (c) 2002 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 mer-
chantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
AUTHOR
Sean M. Burke "sburke@cpan.org"
perl v5.8.8 2006-07-08 Pod::Simple::SimpleTree(3)
