<wmmeta name="Title" value="The POD Format Converter" />
<wmmeta name="Section" value="07-fmt_converters" />
<wmmeta name="Score" value="20" />
<wmmeta name="Abstract">
Perl ''plain old documentation'' support (format: <em>text/pod</em>)
</wmmeta>

This converter converts from POD to HTML, using Tom Christiansen's
**Pod::Html** module.

POD is a powerful, but simple, editable-text format for marking up
manual-page-style documentation.  See the ''perlpod'' manual page in your Perl
documentation for more information on the POD format.

Things to watch out for in WebMake's support for POD:

  * Anything before the &lt;BODY&gt; tag, or after the &lt;/BODY&gt;
  tag, in the generated output is stripped, so that the POD output can be
  embedded in HTML pages without requiring a page of its own.

  * WebMake allows options to **pod2html** to be specified using
  the __podargs__ attribute of the &lt;content&gt; tag; see below.

  * If you are reading POD documentation embedded inside other files,
  you should probably use the ''asis'' attribute on the content items in
  question, otherwise all sorts of wierd things could happen as WebMake tries
  to interpret Perl variable references and so on! See the "&lt;content&gt;"
  [content] documentation for details on ''asis''.

Specifying Options to the POD Translator
----------------------------------------

If you want to specify **pod2html** options to the converter, just
put them in a string as a __podargs__ attribute of the &lt;content&gt; tag,
like so:

   &lt;content name="some_pod" podargs="--noindex"&gt;
   ...
   &lt;/content&gt;


	[content]: $(content)
