NAME
    XAO::DO::Web::PodView - POD files viewer for XAO::Web

SYNOPSIS
     <%PodView module="XAO::Web"%>

DESCRIPTION
    This displayable object for XAO::Web parses pod documentation inside
    installed perl modules and displays it. How it will look depends on a
    set of templates you provide and can theoretically vary from HTML to
    PostScript to XML as no specific HTML code is included in the module
    itself.

    You can use this object to view documentation for all Perl modules
    installed in your system.

    Default templates allow you to put the followin into your templates to
    display this manual pages for example:

     <%PodView module="XAO::DO::Web::PodView"%>

    Alternatively you can give it a path to the file that would contain pod
    documentation after being processed by XAO::Page. This way you can even
    create and display dynamic POD documents.

     <%PodView path="/bits/example.pod"%>

    By default it assumes that the output is "html" and uses appropriate
    =begin, =for and =end blocks. If you want to change that feel free to
    pass "format" argument:

     <%PodView module="IO::File" format="ps"%>

    That will also change directory prefix for all templates internally used
    by PodView object -- you will need to provide them. And please, please,
    please -- if you are a PostScript guru who can create a set of templates
    that will produce nice looking PostScript document -- do a favor for the
    Perl community and share it, mail it to me (am@xao.com) and I'll make
    sure it will be included in the next release with correct
    acknowledgements.

    The following templates are shipped with the PodView object and should
    be modified if you want. Remember, that you do not need to modify them
    in system directory - just copy them to your site and modify them there.
    You should actually only alter templates that you need, not all of them!

     bits/podview/html/command-back-bullet  =back
     bits/podview/html/command-back-number  =back
     bits/podview/html/command-back-text    =back
     bits/podview/html/command-head1        =head1
     bits/podview/html/command-head2        =head2
     bits/podview/html/command-item-bullet  =item
     bits/podview/html/command-item-number  =item
     bits/podview/html/command-item-text    =item
     bits/podview/html/command-over-bullet  =over
     bits/podview/html/command-over-number  =over
     bits/podview/html/command-over-text    =over
     bits/podview/html/command-unknown      unknown commands
     bits/podview/html/embed-bold           B<text>
     bits/podview/html/embed-code           C<text>
     bits/podview/html/embed-escape         E<text>
     bits/podview/html/embed-file           F<text>
     bits/podview/html/embed-italic         I<text>
     bits/podview/html/embed-link-man       L<system manpage>
     bits/podview/html/embed-link-pod       L<perl module>
     bits/podview/html/embed-link-url       L<http://site.com/>
     bits/podview/html/embed-nbsp           S<text>
     bits/podview/html/embed-unknown        unknown<text>
     bits/podview/html/pod-start            start of the document
     bits/podview/html/pod-stop             end of the document
     bits/podview/html/textblock-start      start of text paragraphs
     bits/podview/html/textblock-stop       end of paragraphs
     bits/podview/html/textblock-text       paragraph body
     bits/podview/html/verbatim-start       start of verbatim paragraph
     bits/podview/html/verbatim-stop        stop of verbatim paragraph
     bits/podview/html/verbatim-text        verbatim paragraph body

    A little explanation is required for start and stop for textblock and
    verbatim. PodView calls 'start' before a set of continous textblock or
    verbatim paragraphs and 'stop' after it.

    Normally start and stop for textblock are empty with <P> and </P>
    included in textblock-body. For verbatim mode start contains <PRE> and
    stop contains </PRE>. That means in effect that empty line between two
    verbatim paragraphs would not break verbatim mode as it happens with all
    pod processors I looked at.

    And at the same time if you do want to treat verbatim paragraphs one by
    one - you're free to do so by altering templates.

METHODS
    No publicly available methods except overriden display().

EXPORTS
    Nothing.

AUTHOR
    Copyright (c) 2001 XAO Inc.

    Andrew Maltsev <am@xao.com>.

SEE ALSO
    Recommended reading: the XAO::Web manpage, the XAO::DO::Web::Page
    manpage.

