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Pod::Simple::SimpleTree

Section: Perl Programmers Reference Guide (3perl)
Updated: 2007-12-18
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NAME

Pod::Simple::SimpleTree -- parse Pod into a simple parse tree  

SYNOPSIS

  % cat ptest.pod
  
  =head1 PIE
  
  I like B<pie>!
  
  % perl -MPod::Simple::SimpleTree -MData::Dumper -e \
     "print Dumper(Pod::Simple::SimpleTree->new->parse_file(shift)->root)" \
     ptest.pod
  
  $VAR1 = [
            'Document',
            { 'start_line' => 1 },
            [
              'head1',
              { 'start_line' => 1 },
              'PIE'
            ],
            [
              'Para',
              { 'start_line' => 3 },
              'I like ',
              [
                'B',
                {},
                'pie'
              ],
              '!'
            ]
          ];

 

DESCRIPTION

This class is of interest to people writing a Pod processor/formatter.

This class takes Pod and parses it, returning a parse tree made just of arrayrefs, and hashrefs, and strings.

This is a subclass of Pod::Simple and inherits all its methods.

This class is inspired by XML::Parser's ``Tree'' parsing-style, although it doesn't use exactly the same LoL format.  

METHODS

At the end of the parse, call "$parser->root" to get the tree's top node.  

Tree Contents

Every element node in the parse tree is represented by an arrayref of the form: "[ elementname, \%attributes, ...subnodes... ]". See the example tree dump in the Synopsis, above.

Every text node in the tree is represented by a simple (non-ref) string scalar. So you can test "ref($node)" to see whather you have an element node or just a text node.

The top node in the tree is "[ 'Document', \%attributes, ...subnodes... ]"  

SEE ALSO

Pod::Simple

perllol

The ``Tree'' subsubsection in XML::Parser  

COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS

Copyright (c) 2002 Sean M. Burke. All rights reserved.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.  

AUTHOR

Sean M. Burke "sburke@cpan.org"


 

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