1Pod::Weaver(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Pod::Weaver(3)
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6 Pod::Weaver - weave together a Pod document from an outline
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12 my $weaver = Pod::Weaver->new_with_default_config;
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14 my $document = $weaver->weave_document({
15 pod_document => $pod_elemental_document,
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18 license => $software_license,
19 version => $version_string,
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24 Pod::Weaver is a system for building Pod documents from templates. It
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26 Pod::Elemental::Document. Its plugins sketch out a series of sections
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31 This module has the same support period as perl itself: it supports
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33 released version is v5.40, then this module should work on both v5.40
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43 This attribute stores the logger, which must provide a log method. The
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55 This method will return an arrayref of plugins that perform the given
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62 This is the most important method in Pod::Weaver. Given a set of input
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67 pod_document - a Pod::Elemental::Document for the original Pod document
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69 license - a Software::License object for the source module's license
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75 The method will return a new Pod::Elemental::Document. The input
76 documents may be destructively altered during the weaving process. If
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80 This method returns a new Pod::Weaver with a stock configuration by
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84 Ricardo SIGNES <rjbs@semiotic.systems>
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91 • Blabos de Blebe <blabos@cpan.org>
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105 • David E. Wheeler <david@justatheory.com>
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109 • David Miguel Susano Pinto <carandraug+dev@gmail.com>
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111 • David Zurborg <post@david-zurb.org>
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129 • Randy Stauner <randy@magnificent-tears.com>
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136 This software is copyright (c) 2021 by Ricardo SIGNES.
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138 This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
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