NAME

pod2docbook - Convert POD data to DocBook SGML

SYNOPSIS

pod2docbook [--help] [--doctype=article|chapter|section|refentry] [--title=title] [--spaces=# spaces per indent level] [--fix-double-quotes] [--no-header] [--base-id=idstring] [infile [outfile]]

DESCRIPTION

pod2docbook converts files from pod format (see perlpod) to DocBook 4.2 SGML (see <http://www.docbook.org/>). The program itself is merely a driver for the Pod::2::DocBook class; if you're interested in details of pod-to-SGML translation see Pod::2::DocBook.

OPTIONS AND ARGUMENTS

[--help]

Print usage and exit.

[--doctype=article|chapter|section|refentry]

Specifies the document type for the output file; the default is section.

[--title=title]

Specifies the document title. The default is infile, if it is supplied, or empty string otherwise.

[--spaces=# spaces per indent level]

Specifies the number of spaces per indent level in the SGML output; the default is 2.

[--fix-double-quotes]

Replace pairs of double quotes in regular paragraphs with <quote> and </quote> (see Pod::2::DocBook for details).

[--no-header]

Omit the DOCTYPE line from the output.

infile

The name of the file from which to read pod source; if not supplied, STDIN is used for input.

outfile

The name of the file to which to write SGML; if not supplied, STDOUT is used for output.

[--base-id=idstring]

The root element of the --doctype will have the idstring set for attribute id. The default is an input file name "cleaned up" to conform with XML restriction for characteds used in id strings. (SEE <http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006#NT-Name>)

SEE ALSO

pod2docbook, perlpod, Pod::DocBook, SVN repo - <https://cle.sk/repos/pub/cpan/Pod-2-DocBook/>, <http://www.ohloh.net/projects/pod-2-docbook>, doc/ + examples/pod2docbook-docbook/ for Pod::2::DocBook DocBook documentation

DocBook related links: <http://www.docbook.org/>, <http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/>, <http://developers.cogentrts.com/cogent/prepdoc/pd-axfrequentlyuseddocbooktags.html>

AUTHOR

Alligator Descartes <descarte@symbolstone.org> wrote a module called Pod::2::DocBook, which was later maintained by Jan Iven <jan.iven@cern.ch>. That module was based on the original pod2html by Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>.

Nandu Shah <nandu@zvolve.com> wrote Pod::DocBook, which is unrelated to the previous module (even though they both perform the same function). (<http://search.cpan.org/~nandu/Pod-DocBook-1.2/>)

Jozef Kutej <jkutej@cpan.org> renamed the module to Pod::2::DocBook because Nandus version was buried in the CPAN archive as an "UNAUTHORIZED RELEASE".

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2004, Nandu Shah <nandu@zvolve.com>

Copyright 2008, Jozef Kutej <jkutej@cpan.org>

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