SYNOPSIS

use Publican::Builder;
my $builder = Publican::Builder->new();
$builder->clean_ids();

DESCRIPTION

Manipulate XML and convert to other formats.

INTERFACE

new

Create a new Publican::Builder object.

build

Transform the source in to another format.

Valid formats: eclipse epub html html-single html-desktop man pdf txt

del_unwanted_dirs

Callback that deletes all unwanted directories from the given directory tree. Used to delete CVS and SVN files from the working directories.

del_unwanted_xml

Callback that deletes all unwanted xml from the given directory tree.

validate_xml

Ensure the XML validates against the DTD.

To debug the XML catalogs

export XML_DEBUG_CATALOG=1

test...

unset XML_DEBUG_CATALOG

package_brand

Create the structure for the distributed files and save it as a tar.gz file

package_home

Package a book for use as a Publican Website home page.

build_rpm

Build an srpm for books and brands.

package

Create the structure for the distributed files and save it as a tar.gz file

Creates RPM Specfile and build SRPM.

TODO: Consider handling other package formats, deb etc.

web_labels

Determine if the labels use in the web navigation are different from the names used for packaging.

This should be sub-classed.

setup_xml

Create the proper directory structure for the XML, including copying in Brand files.

This should be sub-classed.

clean_ids

Travers over the source XML and update the id's to match the standard format.

Updates all existing PO files with the new xref links.

This should be sub-classed.

change_log

Generate an RPM style change log from $xml_lang/Revision_History.xml

This should be sub-classed.

get_books

Fetch all the books for a set from a repo.

Supported Repos: SVN

build_set_books

Prepare XML from sub books for Remote Sets

DIAGNOSTICS

"unknown args %s"

All subs with named parameters will return this error when unexpected named arguments are provided.

"%s is a required argument"

Any sub with a mandatory parameter will return this error if the parameter is undef.

CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT

Publican requires no configuration files or environment variables.

DEPENDENCIES

Carp version Config::Simple Publican Publican::XmlClean Publican::Translate File::Path File::pushd File::Find Cwd Archive::Tar DateTime DateTime::Format::DateParse Syntax::Highlight::Engine::Kate HTML::TreeBuilder HTML::FormatText Term::ANSIColor POSIX

INCOMPATIBILITIES

None reported.

AUTHOR

Jeff Fearn "<[email protected]>"