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NAME

OODoc::Parser - base class for all OODoc parsers.

INHERITANCE

 OODoc::Parser
   is a OODoc::Object

 OODoc::Parser is extended by
   OODoc::Parser::Markov

SYNOPSIS

 # Never instantiated directly.

DESCRIPTION

OVERLOADED

METHODS

Constructors

OODoc::Parser->new(OPTIONS)

Inheritance knowledge

$obj->extends([OBJECT])

Parsing a file

$obj->parse(OPTIONS)

    Parse the specified input file into a code file and an object tree which describes the pod. Returned is a list of package objects which contain the docs found in this file.

     Option  Defined in       Default     
     input                    <required>  
     output                   <black hole>

    . input FILENAME

      The name of the input file.

    . output FILENAME

      Where to write the produced code to. If no filename is specified, the platform dependend black hole is used (/dev/null on UNIX).

Formatting text pieces

After the manuals have been parsed into objects, the information can be formatted in various ways, for instance into POD and HTML. However, the parsing is not yet complete: the structure has been decomposed with parse(), but the text blocks not yet. This is because the transformations which are needed are context dependent. For each text section cleanup() is called for the final touch.

$obj->cleanup(FORMATTER, MANUAL, STRING)

Commonly used functions

$obj->filenameToPackage(FILENAME)

OODoc::Parser->filenameToPackage(FILENAME)

$obj->mkdirhier(DIRECTORY)

OODoc::Parser->mkdirhier(DIRECTORY)

Manual Repository

$obj->addManual(MANUAL)

$obj->mainManual(NAME)

$obj->manual(NAME)

$obj->manuals

$obj->manualsForPackage(NAME)

$obj->packageNames

DIAGNOSTICS

Error: The formatter type $class is not known for cleanup

Text blocks have to get the finishing touch in the final formatting phase. The parser has to fix the text block segments to create a formatter dependent output. Only a few formatters are predefined.

Warning: Unknown option $name

You have used the option with $name, which is not defined with the instantiation (the new method) of this object.

Warning: Unknown options @names

You have used more than one option which is not defined to instantiate the object.

Error: manual definition requires manual object

A call to addManual() expects a new manual object (a OODoc::Manual), however an incompatible thing was passed. Usually, intended was a call to manualsForPackage() or mainManual().

REFERENCES

See the OODoc website at http://perl.overmeer.net/oodoc/ for more details.

COPYRIGHTS

Module version 0.90. Written by Mark Overmeer (mark@overmeer.net). See the ChangeLog for other contributors.

Copyright (c) 2003 by the author(s). All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.