1PPI::HTML(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation PPI::HTML(3)
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6 PPI::HTML - Generate syntax-hightlighted HTML for Perl using PPI
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9 use PPI;
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12 # Load your Perl file
13 my $Document = PPI::Document->load( 'script.pl' );
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15 # Create a reusable syntax highlighter
16 my $Highlight = PPI::HTML->new( line_numbers => 1 );
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22 PPI::HTML converts Perl documents into syntax highlighted HTML pages.
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25 PPI::HTML is the successor to the now-redundant PPI::Format::HTML.
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27 While early on it was thought that the same formatting code might be
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29 HTML for example) later developments with the here-doc code and the
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36 API Overview
37 The new module is much cleaner. Simply create an object with the
38 options you want, pass PPI::Document objects to the "html" method, and
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43 The "new" constructor takes a simple set of key/value pairs to define
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63 css The "css" option lets you provide a custom CSS::Tiny object
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78 html $Document | $file | \$source
79 The main method for the class, the "html" method takes a single
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81 PPI::Document via its "new" method, and returns a string of HTML
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87 Bugs should always be submitted via the CPAN bug tracker
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94 Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org>
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96 Funding provided by The Perl Foundation
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99 <http://ali.as/>, PPI
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102 Copyright 2005 - 2009 Adam Kennedy.
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104 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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107 The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included
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