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.