1Pod::Elemental(3)     User Contributed Perl Documentation    Pod::Elemental(3)
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NAME

6       Pod::Elemental - work with nestable Pod elements
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VERSION

9       version 0.103004
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SYNOPSIS

12         use Pod::Elemental;
13         use Pod::Elemental::Transformer::Pod5;
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15         my $document = Pod::Elemental->read_file('lib/Pod/Elemental.pm');
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17         Pod::Elemental::Transformer::Pod5->new->transform_node($document);
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19         print $document->as_debug_string, "\n"; # quick overview of doc structure
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21         print $document->as_pod_string, "\n";   # reproduce the document in Pod
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DESCRIPTION

24       Pod::Elemental is a system for treating a Pod (plain old documentation)
25       documents as trees of elements.  This model may be familiar from many
26       other document systems, especially the HTML DOM.  Pod::Elemental's
27       document object model is much less sophisticated than the HTML DOM, but
28       still makes a lot of document transformations easy.
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30       In general, you'll want to read in a Pod document and then perform a
31       number of prepackaged transformations on it.  The most common of these
32       will be the Pod5 transformation, which assumes that the basic meaning
33       of Pod commands described in the Perl 5 documentation hold: "=begin",
34       "=end", and "=for" commands mark regions of the document, leading
35       whitespace marks a verbatim paragraph, and so on.  The Pod5 transformer
36       also eliminates the need to track elements representing vertical
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ATTRIBUTES

40   event_reader
41       The event reader (by default a new instance of Pod::Eventual::Simple is
42       used to convert input into an event stream.  In general, it should
43       provide "read_*" methods that behave like Pod::Eventual::Simple.
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45   objectifier
46       The objectifier (by default a new Pod::Elemental::Objectifier) must
47       provide an "objectify_events" method that converts Pod events into
48       Pod::Elemental::Element objects.
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50   document_class
51       This is the class for documents created by reading pod.
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METHODS

54   read_handle
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56   read_string
57       These methods read the given input and return a
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AUTHOR

61       Ricardo SIGNES <rjbs@cpan.org>
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64       This software is copyright (c) 2014 by Ricardo SIGNES.
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66       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
67       the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
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