Is anyone working on a replacement of Pod:Html that uses Pod::Parser?
Currently pod to html conversion seems a bit fragmented. As far as I can
tell currently (and I have only just started looking at the pod-people
list) there are:
- Pod::Html by Tom Christiansen (standalone, no Pod::Parser)
- podtohtml by Nick Ing-Simmons using an older Pod::Parser, but
currently broken if the Pod::Find from newer PodParser's is
used (I have a patch for it)
- Pod::HTML using Pod::Simplify not Pod::Parser.
Does anyone have any comments on the above? I see from this mailing
list that work is currently ongoing on a SGML DTD.
Since one was required for my own work, I wrote a Pod::Html replacement
this week that uses Pod::Parser. It can handle pretty much all
POD constructs except references inside other documents.
If anyone is interested, I would be happy to post it for comments.
A demo can be found at:
http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/JACpublic/JCMT/software/bin/ttt.pl?Pod::Parser
Replace the argument at the end with another module if required. It runs
from a CGI script and generates the HTML dynamically. Links are simply
done as further calls to the CGI script. It will probably be renamed next
week from this test version.
Comments are welcomed. I don't want to do any more work on this if work is
already advanced on an alternative.
--
Tim Jenness
JCMT software engineer/Support scientist
http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj
