Sorry; I thought you were gratuitously "bustin' my chops;" I see differently now and apologize for the deficiencies in my reply. They were numerous.

The options I mentioned allow you to selectively produce a plain text file (formatted with spaces and newlines) of the relevant doc (and pod, TBOMK) using a CLI command like this (under Win):

F:\pl_docs>perldoc -d nextpod.out -T -o f next
Perldoc (Pod::Perldoc::ToText) output saved to nextpod.out

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The -d argument is the outfile name; -T says "don't page" and -o can specify a format, but is not something I've played with seriously. (Note, NO hyphen before the "f" preceding the function name. I have no clue why it works that way.)

From there, wrap the output in minimal html,

html
<head>
<title> <!-- (module or function title) --> </title>
</head>
<body>
<pre>
<!-- (content of your output from above, verbatim) -->
</pre>
</body>
</html>

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However, automating the above in a script may be more work than I've considered. Making the .html 'semantic' would certainly be more work.

So, in all honesty (/me flushes with pseudo-embarassment and pride at his self-congratulatory caveat), RichardK's pointer to Pod::Webserver now seems likely to be a far better way to do the job, unless it's bug-ridden. And in further honesty, you're right about needing to be obvious -- I just thought it would be to a Monk as experienced and wise (if sometimes, a tad sharp with others) as you. But since the post will stand for others, apologies, also, for failing to follow that guidance.

But, afterthought, would you please stick <c>readmore<c>s in there somewhere?

In reply to Re^3: Perl Module Documentation by ww
in thread Perl Module Documentation by dspman

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