Pod::Simple::DumpAsXML -- turn Pod into XML

Pod::Simple was created by Sean M. Burke <sburke@cpan.org>. But don't bother him, he's retired. Pod::Simple is maintained by: • Allison Randal "allison@perl.org" • Hans Dieter Pearcey "hdp@cpan.org" • David E. Wheeler "dwheeler@cpan.org" perl v5.40.1 2025-07-27 Pod::Simple::DumpAsXML(3perl)

Copyright (c) 2002 Sean M. Burke. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

Pod::Simple::DumpAsXML is a subclass of Pod::Simple that parses Pod and turns it into indented and wrapped XML. This class is of interest to people writing Pod formatters based on Pod::Simple. Pod::Simple::DumpAsXML inherits methods from Pod::Simple.

Pod::Simple::DumpAsXML -- turn Pod into XML

Pod::Simple::XMLOutStream is rather like this class. Pod::Simple::XMLOutStream's output is space-padded in a way that's better for sending to an XML processor (that is, it has no ignorable whitespace). But Pod::Simple::DumpAsXML's output is much more human-readable, being (more-or-less) one token per line, with line-wrapping. Pod::Simple::DumpAsText is rather like this class, except that it doesn't dump with XML syntax. Try them and see which one you like best! Pod::Simple, Pod::Simple::DumpAsXML The older libraries Pod::PXML, Pod::XML, Pod::SAX

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perl -MPod::Simple::DumpAsXML -e \ "exit Pod::Simple::DumpAsXML->filter(shift)->any_errata_seen" \ thingy.pod