Pod::Simple::SimpleTree -- parse Pod into a simple parse tree
% cat ptest.pod
=head1 PIE
I like B<pie>!
% perl -MPod::Simple::SimpleTree -MData::Dumper -e \
"print Dumper(Pod::Simple::SimpleTree->new->parse_file(shift)->root)" \
ptest.pod
$VAR1 = [
'Document',
{ 'start_line' => 1 },
[
'head1',
{ 'start_line' => 1 },
'PIE'
],
[
'Para',
{ 'start_line' => 3 },
'I like ',
[
'B',
{},
'pie'
],
'!'
]
];
This class is of interest to people writing a Pod processor/formatter.
This class takes Pod and parses it, returning a parse tree made just of arrayrefs, and hashrefs, and strings.
This is a subclass of