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NAME
       Pod::Html - module to convert pod files to HTML

SYNOPSIS
           use Pod::Html;
           pod2html([options]);

DESCRIPTION
       Converts files from pod format (see perlpod) to HTML
       format.  It can automatically generate indexes and cross-
       references, and it keeps a cache of things it knows how to
       cross-reference.

FUNCTIONS
   pod2html
           pod2html("pod2html",
                    "--podpath=lib:ext:pod:vms",
                    "--podroot=/usr/src/perl",
                    "--htmlroot=/perl/nmanual",
                    "--libpods=perlfunc:perlguts:perlvar:perlrun:perlop",
                    "--recurse",
                    "--infile=foo.pod",
                    "--outfile=/perl/nmanual/foo.html");

       pod2html takes the following arguments:

       backlink
               --backlink="Back to Top"

           Adds "Back to Top" links in front of every "head1"
           heading (except for the first).  By default, no
           backlinks are generated.

       cachedir
               --cachedir=name

           Creates the item and directory caches in the given
           directory.

       css
               --css=stylesheet

           Specify the URL of a cascading style sheet.  Also
           disables all HTML/CSS "style" attributes that are
           output by default (to avoid conflicts).

       flush
               --flush

           Flushes the item and directory caches.

       header
               --header
               --noheader



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           Creates header and footer blocks containing the text
           of the "NAME" section.  By default, no headers are
           generated.

       help
               --help

           Displays the usage message.

       hiddendirs
               --hiddendirs
               --nohiddendirs

           Include hidden directories in the search for POD's in
           podpath if recurse is set.  The default is not to
           traverse any directory whose name begins with ".".
           See "podpath" and "recurse".

           [This option is for backward compatibility only.  It's
           hard to imagine that one would usefully create a
           module with a name component beginning with ".".]

       htmldir
               --htmldir=name

           Sets the directory in which the resulting HTML file is
           placed.  This is used to generate relative links to
           other files. Not passing this causes all links to be
           absolute, since this is the value that tells Pod::Html
           the root of the documentation tree.

       htmlroot
               --htmlroot=name

           Sets the base URL for the HTML files.  When cross-
           references are made, the HTML root is prepended to the
           URL.

       index
               --index
               --noindex

           Generate an index at the top of the HTML file.  This
           is the default behaviour.

       infile
               --infile=name

           Specify the pod file to convert.  Input is taken from
           STDIN if no infile is specified.

       libpods
               --libpods=name:...:name




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           List of page names (eg, "perlfunc") which contain
           linkable "=item"s.

       netscape
               --netscape
               --nonetscape

           Deprecated, has no effect. For backwards compatibility
           only.

       outfile
               --outfile=name

           Specify the HTML file to create.  Output goes to
           STDOUT if no outfile is specified.

       podpath
               --podpath=name:...:name

           Specify which subdirectories of the podroot contain
           pod files whose HTML converted forms can be linked to
           in cross references.

       podroot
               --podroot=name

           Specify the base directory for finding library pods.

       quiet
               --quiet
               --noquiet

           Don't display mostly harmless warning messages.  These
           messages will be displayed by default.  But this is
           not the same as "verbose" mode.

       recurse
               --recurse
               --norecurse

           Recurse into subdirectories specified in podpath
           (default behaviour).

       title
               --title=title

           Specify the title of the resulting HTML file.

       verbose
               --verbose
               --noverbose

           Display progress messages.  By default, they won't be
           displayed.



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   htmlify
           htmlify($heading);

       Converts a pod section specification to a suitable section
       specification for HTML. Note that we keep spaces and
       special characters except "", ?" (Netscape problem) and
       the hyphen (writer's problem...).

   anchorify
           anchorify(@heading);

       Similar to "htmlify()", but turns non-alphanumerics into
       underscores.  Note that "anchorify()" is not exported by
       default.

ENVIRONMENT
       Uses $Config{pod2html} to setup default options.

AUTHOR
       Tom Christiansen, <tchrist@perl.com>.

SEE ALSO
       perlpod

COPYRIGHT
       This program is distributed under the Artistic License.































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