CONTENTS

• NAME
• SYNOPSIS
• DESCRIPTION
• METHOD CALLING
• SEE ALSO
• SUPPORT
• COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS
• AUTHOR

#NAME

Pod::Simple::Methody -- turn Pod::Simple events into method calls

#SYNOPSIS

require 5;
use strict;
package SomePodFormatter;
use base qw(Pod::Simple::Methody);
sub handle_text {
  my($self, $text) = @_;
  ...
}
sub start_head1 {
  my($self, $attrs) = @_;
  ...
}
sub end_head1 {
  my($self) = @_;
  ...
}

...and start_/end_ methods for whatever other events you want to catch.

#DESCRIPTION

This class is of interest to people writing Pod formatters based on Pod::Simple.

This class (which is very small -- read the source) overrides Pod::Simple's _handle_element_start, _handle_text, and _handle_element_end methods so that parser events are turned into method calls. (Otherwise, this is a subclass of Pod::Simple and inherits all its methods.)

You can use this class as the base class for a Pod formatter/processor.

#METHOD CALLING

When Pod::Simple sees a "=head1 Hi there", for example, it basically does this:

$parser->_handle_element_start( "head1", \%attributes );
$parser->_handle_text( "Hi there" );
$parser->_handle_element_end( "head1" );

But if you subclass Pod::Simple::Methody, it will instead do this when it sees a "=head1 Hi there":

$parser->start_head1( \%attributes ) if $parser->can('start_head1');
$parser->handle_text( "Hi there" )   if $parser->can('handle_text');
$parser->end_head1()                 if $parser->can('end_head1');

If Pod::Simple sends an event where the element name has a dash, period, or colon, the corresponding method name will have a underscore in its place. For example, "foo.bar:baz" becomes start_foo_bar_baz and end_foo_bar_baz.

See the source for Pod::Simple::Text for an example of using this class.

#SEE ALSO

Pod::Simple, Pod::Simple::Subclassing

#SUPPORT

Questions or discussion about POD and Pod::Simple should be sent to the pod-people@perl.org mail list. Send an empty email to pod-people-subscribe@perl.org to subscribe.

This module is managed in an open GitHub repository, https://github.com/perl-pod/pod-simple/. Feel free to fork and contribute, or to clone https://github.com/perl-pod/pod-simple.git and send patches!

Patches against Pod::Simple are welcome. Please send bug reports to <bug-pod-simple@rt.cpan.org>.

#COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS

Copyright (c) 2002 Sean M. Burke.

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

Pod::Simple was created by Sean M. Burke <sburke@cpan.org>. But don't bother him, he's retired.

Pod::Simple is maintained by:

• Allison Randal allison@perl.org

• Hans Dieter Pearcey hdp@cpan.org

• David E. Wheeler dwheeler@cpan.org

Perldoc Browser is maintained by Dan Book (DBOOK). Please contact him via the GitHub issue tracker or email regarding any issues with the site itself, search, or rendering of documentation.

The Perl documentation is maintained by the Perl 5 Porters in the development of Perl. Please contact them via the Perl issue tracker, the mailing list, or IRC to report any issues with the contents or format of the documentation.