NAME
Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Pod2Html - create CSS-rich HTML pages from the
POD-aware files
VERSION
version 0.1.2
SYNOPSIS
# dist.ini
[Pod2Html]
# or
[Pod2Html]
dir = my_docs ; where to create HTML files
# or
[Pod2Html]
ignore = bin/myscript1 ; what input file to ignore
ignore = bin/myscript2 ; another input to ignore
DESCRIPTION
This plugin generates HTML pages from the POD files and puts them into
the distribution in a separate directory (not as a tree of files but
flatten). The created HTML pages have the same (or, at least, similar)
style as the modules' documentation shown at CPAN.
It creates HTML pages from all files in the "lib" and "bin" directory
that contain a POD section and that have ".pm" or ".pl" extension or
that have the word "perl" in their first line. The plugin is run after
other plugins that may munge files and create the POD sections (such as
*PodWeaver*).
ATTRIBUTES
All attributes are optional.
dir
This attribute changes the destination of the generated HTML files. It
is a directory (or even a path) relative to the distribution root
directory. Default value is "docs". For example:
[Pod2Html]
dir = docs/html
ignore
This attribute allows to ignore some input files that would be otherwise
converted to HTML. Its value is a file name that should be ignored
(relative to the distribution root directory). By default no
(appropriate) files are ignored. The attribute can be repeated if you
wish to ignore more files. For example:
[Pod2Html]
ignore = lib/My/Sample.pm
ignore = bin/obscure-script
SUBCLASSING
New plugins can be created by subclassing this plugin. The subclass may
consider to overwrite following methods:
is_interesting_file ($file)
The method decides (by returning something or undef) whether the given
file should be a candidate for the conversion to the HTML. The parameter
is a blessed object with the "Dist::Zilla::Role::File" role.
pod2html ($file)
This method does the conversion to the HTML (using module
"Pod::Simple::HTML"). It gets an input file (a blessed object with the
"Dist::Zilla::Role::File" role) and it should return a converted
content. By overwriting this method a new plugin can make any
conversion, to anything.
get_css_style
It returns a string containing CSS-style definitions. The string will be
used in the "head" section of the created HTML file. See its default
value in the *__DATA__* section of this module.
AUTHOR
Martin Senger
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Martin Senger, CBRC - KAUST
(Computational Biology Research Center - King Abdullah University of
Science and Technology) All Rights Reserved..
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.