pod2html¶

    pod2html("pod2html",
             "--podpath=lib:ext:pod:vms",
             "--podroot=/usr/src/perl",
             "--htmlroot=/perl/nmanual",
             "--libpods=perlfunc:perlguts:perlvar:perlrun:perlop",
             "--recurse",
             "--infile=foo.pod",
             "--outfile=/perl/nmanual/foo.html");

pod2html takes the following arguments:

backlink

    --backlink="Back to Top"
    

Adds "Back to Top" links in front of every "head1" heading (except for the first). By default, no backlinks are generated.

cachedir

    --cachedir=name
    

Creates the item and directory caches in the given directory.

css

    --css=stylesheet
    

Specify the URL of a cascading style sheet. Also disables all HTML/CSS "style" attributes that are output by default (to avoid conflicts).

flush

    --flush
    

Flushes the item and directory caches.

header

    --header
    --noheader
    

Creates header and footer blocks containing the text of the "NAME" section. By default, no headers are generated.

help

    --help
    

Displays the usage message.

hiddendirs

    --hiddendirs
    --nohiddendirs
    

Include hidden directories in the search for POD's in podpath if recurse is set. The default is not to traverse any directory whose name begins with ".". See "podpath" and "recurse".

[This option is for backward compatibility only. It's hard to imagine that one would usefully create a module with a name component beginning with ".".]

htmldir

    --htmldir=name
    

Sets the directory in which the resulting HTML file is placed. This is used to generate relative links to other files. Not passing this causes all links to be absolute, since this is the value that tells Pod::Html the root of the documentation tree.

htmlroot

    --htmlroot=name
    

Sets the base URL for the HTML files. When cross-references are made, the HTML root is prepended to the URL.

index

    --index
    --noindex
    

Generate an index at the top of the HTML file. This is the default behaviour.

infile

    --infile=name
    

Specify the pod file to convert. Input is taken from STDIN if no infile is specified.

libpods

    --libpods=name:...:name
    

List of page names (eg, "perlfunc") which contain linkable "=item"s.

netscape

    --netscape
    --nonetscape
    

Deprecated, has no effect. For backwards compatibility only.

outfile

    --outfile=name
    

Specify the HTML file to create. Output goes to STDOUT if no outfile is specified.

podpath

    --podpath=name:...:name
    

Specify which subdirectories of the podroot contain pod files whose HTML converted forms can be linked to in cross references.

podroot

    --podroot=name
    

Specify the base directory for finding library pods.

quiet

    --quiet
    --noquiet
    

Don't display mostly harmless warning messages. These messages will be displayed by default. But this is not the same as "verbose" mode.

recurse

    --recurse
    --norecurse
    

Recurse into subdirectories specified in podpath (default behaviour).

title

    --title=title
    

Specify the title of the resulting HTML file.

verbose

    --verbose
    --noverbose
    

Display progress messages. By default, they won't be displayed.

htmlify¶

    htmlify($heading);

Converts a pod section specification to a suitable section specification for HTML. Note that we keep spaces and special characters except "", ?" (Netscape problem) and the hyphen (writer's problem...).

anchorify¶

    anchorify(@heading);

Similar to "htmlify()", but turns non-alphanumerics into underscores. Note that "anchorify()" is not exported by default.