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NAME

6       Pod::Simple::SimpleTree -- parse Pod into a simple parse tree
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SYNOPSIS

9         % cat ptest.pod
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11         =head1 PIE
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13         I like B<pie>!
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15         % perl -MPod::Simple::SimpleTree -MData::Dumper -e \
16            "print Dumper(Pod::Simple::SimpleTree->new->parse_file(shift)->root)" \
17            ptest.pod
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19         $VAR1 = [
20                   'Document',
21                   { 'start_line' => 1 },
22                   [
23                     'head1',
24                     { 'start_line' => 1 },
25                     'PIE'
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27                   [
28                     'Para',
29                     { 'start_line' => 3 },
30                     'I like ',
31                     [
32                       'B',
33                       {},
34                       'pie'
35                     ],
36                     '!'
37                   ]
38                 ];
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DESCRIPTION

41       This class is of interest to people writing a Pod processor/formatter.
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43       This class takes Pod and parses it, returning a parse tree made just of
44       arrayrefs, and hashrefs, and strings.
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46       This is a subclass of Pod::Simple and inherits all its methods.
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48       This class is inspired by XML::Parser's "Tree" parsing-style, although
49       it doesn't use exactly the same LoL format.
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METHODS

52       At the end of the parse, call "$parser->root" to get the tree's top
53       node.
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Tree Contents

56       Every element node in the parse tree is represented by an arrayref of
57       the form: "[ elementname, \%attributes, ...subnodes... ]".  See the
58       example tree dump in the Synopsis, above.
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60       Every text node in the tree is represented by a simple (non-ref) string
61       scalar.  So you can test "ref($node)" to see whather you have an
62       element node or just a text node.
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64       The top node in the tree is "[ 'Document', \%attributes, ...subnodes...
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SEE ALSO

68       Pod::Simple
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70       perllol
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72       The "Tree" subsubsection in XML::Parser
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SUPPORT

75       Questions or discussion about POD and Pod::Simple should be sent to the
76       pod-people@perl.org mail list. Send an empty email to
77       pod-people-subscribe@perl.org to subscribe.
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79       This module is managed in an open GitHub repository,
80       http://github.com/theory/pod-simple/ <http://github.com/theory/pod-
81       simple/>. Feel free to fork and contribute, or to clone
82       git://github.com/theory/pod-simple.git <git://github.com/theory/pod-
83       simple.git> and send patches!
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85       Patches against Pod::Simple are welcome. Please send bug reports to
86       <bug-pod-simple@rt.cpan.org>.
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89       Copyright (c) 2002 Sean M. Burke.
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91       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
92       under the same terms as Perl itself.
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94       This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
95       without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of
96       merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
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AUTHOR

99       Pod::Simple was created by Sean M. Burke <sburke@cpan.org>.  But don't
100       bother him, he's retired.
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102       Pod::Simple is maintained by:
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104       ·   Allison Randal "allison@perl.org"
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106       ·   Hans Dieter Pearcey "hdp@cpan.org"
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108       ·   David E. Wheeler "dwheeler@cpan.org"
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