POD2HTML(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide POD2HTML(1)

pod2html - convert .pod files to .html files

    pod2html --help --htmldir=<name> --htmlroot=<URL>
             --infile=<name> --outfile=<name>
             --podpath=<name>:...:<name> --podroot=<name>
             --cachedir=<name> --flush --recurse --norecurse
             --quiet --noquiet --verbose --noverbose
             --index --noindex --backlink --nobacklink
             --header --noheader --poderrors --nopoderrors
             --css=<URL> --title=<name>

Converts files from pod format (see perlpod) to HTML format.

pod2html takes the following arguments:

  --backlink
  --nobacklink
    

Turn =head1 directives into links pointing to the top of the HTML file. --nobacklink (which is the default behavior) does not create these backlinks.

  --cachedir=name
    

Specify which directory is used for storing cache. Default directory is the current working directory.

  --css=URL
    

Specify the URL of cascading style sheet to link from resulting HTML file. Default is none style sheet.

  --flush
    

Flush the cache.

  --header
  --noheader
    

Create header and footer blocks containing the text of the "NAME" section. --noheader -- which is the default behavior -- does not create header or footer blocks.

  --help
    

Displays the usage message.

  --htmldir=name
    

Sets the directory to which all cross references in the resulting HTML file will be relative. Not passing this causes all links to be absolute since this is the value that tells Pod::Html the root of the documentation tree.

Do not use this and --htmlroot in the same call to pod2html; they are mutually exclusive.

  --htmlroot=URL
    

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

Do not use this if relative links are desired: use --htmldir instead.

Do not pass both this and --htmldir to pod2html; they are mutually exclusive.

  --index
    

Generate an index at the top of the HTML file (default behaviour).

  --noindex
    

Do not generate an index at the top of the HTML file.

  --infile=name
    

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

  --outfile=name
    

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

  --poderrors
  --nopoderrors
    

Include a "POD ERRORS" section in the outfile if there were any POD errors in the infile (default behaviour). --nopoderrors does not create this "POD ERRORS" section.

  --podpath=name:...:name
    

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

  --podroot=name
    

Specify the base directory for finding library pods.

  --quiet
  --noquiet
    

Don't display mostly harmless warning messages. --noquiet -- which is the default behavior -- does display these mostly harmless warning messages (but this is not the same as "verbose" mode).

  --recurse
  --norecurse
    

Recurse into subdirectories specified in podpath (default behaviour). --norecurse does not recurse into these subdirectories.

  --title=title
    

Specify the title of the resulting HTML file.

  --verbose
  --noverbose
    

Display progress messages. --noverbose -- which is the default behavior -- does not display these progress messages.

Tom Christiansen, <tchrist@perl.com>.

See Pod::Html for a list of known bugs in the translator.

perlpod, Pod::Html

This program is distributed under the Artistic License.

2024-03-12 perl v5.38.2