Pod::Tree::HTML

ido50 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi there.
I've been trying to use Pod::Tree::HTML to create HTML pages from the POD in a CGI program I'm writing.
At first, I've tried doing this with the following code:

sub pod {
    my ($class, $source, $dest) = @_;

    my $html = Pod::Tree::HTML->new($source, $dest);
    $html->translate;
    open(HTML, $dest) or die "Can't open HTML for $source: $!";
    flock(HTML, LOCK_SH);
    print $cgi_query->header;
    foreach (<HTML>) {
        chomp;
        print;
    }
    close(HTML);
}
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where $source and $dest are the paths to the source file and destination file. Performing this routine on any module from my program would result in the following HTML file:
<html><body></body></html>
So I've tried to do it a little differently by first creating a new Pod::Tree and then using new Pod::Tree::HTML on the tree, but got the same result. I've used Pod::Tree's dump subroutine to see the tree, but it was empty.

Using Perl's pod2html program on the modules of my program creates the HTML pages without any problem so I don't think there's a problem with my POD.

Any suggestions?

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Re: Pod::Tree::HTML by bibo (Pilgrim) on Jul 06, 2004 at 18:54 UTC
Well, you are not showing us much info about the arguments to pod() but I wonder about permissions in your web environment? Perhaps you are setting $dest to be something outside the docroot which the web server will not allow? Any luck just creating the file specified in $dest with a bit of text in it?? --bibo	[reply]
Re^2: Pod::Tree::HTML by ido50 (Scribe) on Jul 08, 2004 at 19:38 UTC
As I've said (Or maybe was not too clear about it, sorry), the destination file is created, but only with the following text (HTML): `<html><body></body></html>` So there's no problem with the `$dest` path. I've also double checked that `$source` holds the correct source path... ------------------------- Live fat, die young	[reply] [d/l] [select]