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.