Pod::Simple::Wiki::Mediawiki(3) A class for creating Pod to Mediawiki wiki filters.

SYNOPSIS

This module isn't used directly. Instead it is called via "Pod::Simple::Wiki":


#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Pod::Simple::Wiki;
my $parser = Pod::Simple::Wiki->new('mediawiki', \%opts);
...

Convert Pod to a Mediawiki wiki format using the installed "pod2wiki" utility:

    pod2wiki --style mediawiki file.pod > file.wiki

DESCRIPTION

The "Pod::Simple::Wiki::Mediawiki" module is used for converting Pod text to Wiki text.

Pod (Plain Old Documentation) is a simple markup language used for writing Perl documentation.

For an introduction to Mediawiki see: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki

This module isn't generally invoked directly. Instead it is called via "Pod::Simple::Wiki". See the Pod::Simple::Wiki and pod2wiki documentation for more information.

METHODS

Pod::Simple::Wiki::Mediawiki inherits all of the methods of "Pod::Simple" and "Pod::Simple::Wiki". See Pod::Simple and Pod::Simple::Wiki for more details.

new

The following options are supported by the "Pod::Simple::Wiki::Mediawiki" constructor:
custom_tags
This option accepts a hashref containing the HTML tag to MediaWiki mappings.

For example, if your MediaWiki installation has the SyntaxHighlight GeSHi <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi> extension installed, you could pass the following custom tags to enable your verbatim paragraphs to be syntax highlighted:

    {
        custom_tags => {
            '<pre>'     => "<syntaxhighlight lang=\"perl\">\n",
            '</pre>'    => "\n</syntaxhighlight>\n",
        }
    }

Any custom tags you define will override the classes' default tags as defined in the $tags variable.

Defaults to ``{}''.

transformer_lists
If enabled, modify the item list output to better support the Pod::Elemental::Transformer::List style of lists (as used by many Dist::Zilla based distros via Pod::Weaver).

For example, the output of the following list definition:

    =for :list
    * Point one
    This is pointy
    * Point two
    That hurts

will be transformed into:

    * Point one<p>This is pointy</p>
    * Point two<p>That hurts</p>

This will be rendered as a bulleted with list headings that have correctly indented paragraph blocks immediately beneath.

Defaults to 0.

link_prefix
If set, all links without any extra qualifier text are prefixed with the given URL. A useful URL to set this option to is: "http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?", which will enable the links to be correctly resolved to the external links when used within your internal MediaWiki site.

Defaults to 0.

sentence_case_headers
This option will modify any "=head1" header by lower-casing it and then upper-casing the first character.

For example, this header:

    =head1 DESCRIPTION

becomes:

    =head1 Description

This option is inspired from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Article_titles> in the Wikipedia ``Manual of Style''.

Defaults to 0.

remove_name_section
If enabled, modify the resultant wiki output text to remove the ``NAME'' (or ``Name'') section, but first parse out the embedded abstract text and place that at the top of the wiki page, as a brief introduction.

Defaults to 0.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thanks Tony Sidaway for initial Wikipedia/MediaWiki support. Christopher J. Madsen for several major additions and tests. Peter Hallam added several MediaWiki enhancements.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY

Please refer to the DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY in Pod::Simple::Wiki.

AUTHORS

John McNamara [email protected]

Christopher J. Madsen [email protected]

COPYRIGHT

MMIII-MMXV, John McNamara.

All Rights Reserved. This module is free software. It may be used, redistributed and/or modified under the same terms as Perl itself.