NAME
   Pod::XML - Module to convert POD to XML

SYNOPSIS
     use Pod::XML;
     my $parser = Pod::XML->new();
     $parser->parse_from_file("foo.pod");

DESCRIPTION
   This module uses Pod::Parser to parse POD and generates XML from
   the resulting parse stream. It uses its own format, described
   below.

XML FORMAT
   The XML format is not a standardised format - if you wish to
   generate some standard XML format such as docbook, please use a
   tool such as XSLT to convert between this and that format.

   The format uses the namespace
   "http://axkit.org/ns/2000/pod2xml". Do not try and request this
   URI - it is virtual. You will get a 404.

   The best way to describe the format is to show you:

     <pod xmlns="http://axkit.org/ns/2000/pod2xml">
       <head>
         <title>The first =head1 goes in here</title>
       </head>
       <sect1>
       <title>Subsequent =head1's create a sect1</title>
         <para>
         Ordinary paragraphs of text create a para tag.
         </para>
         <verbatim>
         Indented verbatim sections go in verbatim tags.
         </verbatim>
         <sect2>
         <title>=head2's go in sect2</title>
           <para>
           Up to =head4 is supported (despite not really being
           supported by pod), producing sect3 and
           sect4 respectively for =head3 and =head4.
           </para>
           <para>
           Bold text goes in a <strong>strong</strong> tag.
           </para>
           <para>
           Italic text goes in a <emphasis>emphasis</emphasis> tag.
           </para>
           <para>
           Code goes in a <code>code</code> tag.
           </para>
           <para>
           Lists (=over, =item, =back) go in list/item/itemtext
           tags. The itemtext element is only present if the
           =item text is <strong>not</strong> the "*" character.
           </para>
         </sect2>
       </sect1>
     </pod>

   If the first =head1 is "NAME" (like standard perl modules are
   supposed to be) it takes the next paragraph as the document
   title. Other standard head elements of POD are left unchanged
   (particularly, the SYNOPSIS and DESCRIPTION elements of standard
   POD).

   Pod::XML tries to be careful about nesting sect's based on the
   head level in the original POD. Let me know if this doesn't work
   for you.

AUTHOR
   Matt Sergeant, [email protected]

SEE ALSO
   Pod::Parser

BUGS
   There is no xml2pod.

LICENSE
   This is free software, you may use it and distribute it under
   the same terms as Perl itself.