NAME

Pod::Index::Builder - Build a pod index

SYNOPSIS

    use Pod::Index::Builder;
    my $p = Pod::Index::Builder->new(
        pi_base => $base_path,
    );
    for my $file (@ARGV) {
        $p->parse_from_file($file);
    }
    $p->print_index;

DESCRIPTION

This is a subclass of Pod::Parser that reads POD and outputs nothing. However, it saves the position of every X<> entry it sees. The index can be retrieved as a hashref, or printed in a format that is understandable by Pod::Index::Search.

METHODS

new

The constructor, inherited from Pod::Parser. The only optional argument that cares about is "pi_base". If given, it is used as a base when converting pathnames to package names. For example, if "pi_path" = "lib", the filename lib/Pod/Index.pm will turn into "Pod::Index", instead of the undesirable "lib::Pod::Index".

pod_index

Retrieves the index as a hashref. The hash keys are the keywords contained in the X<> tags, normalized to lowercase; the values are array references of Pod::Index::Entry objects.

print_index

    $parser->print_index($fh);
    $parser->print_index($filename);
    $parser->print_index();
    

Prints the index to the given output filename or filehandle (or STDOUT by default). The format is tab-delimited, with the following columns:

    1) keyword
    2) podname 
    3) line number
    4) context (title of section containing this entry)
    

The index is sorted by keyword in a case-insensitive way.

VERSION

0.14

SEE ALSO

Pod::Index, Pod::Index::Entry, Pod::Index::Search, Pod::Parser, perlpod

AUTHOR

Ivan Tubert-Brohman <itub@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2005 Ivan Tubert-Brohman. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.