

I've uploaded the first release of App::Pod2CpanHtml to CPAN. The main purpose of this module is to install a pod2cpanhtml executable for converting Pod to search.cpan style HTML.

pod2cpanhtml SomeModule.pm > some_module.html



I initially wrote the executable in response to a question on PerlMonks. It is just a very thin wrapper around Pod::Simple::HTML combined with the search.cpan CSS.

I find that I use this utility all the time, for generating HTML docs and for proof reading documentation prior to uploading it to CPAN, so I thought that I may as well make a module out of it.

This also serves as an answer to the frequently asked question "How do I create HTML docs like on CPAN".

The main reason that the module produces HTML output that looks like search.cpan is that it uses the same CSS style sheet. I'm not sure who wrote that but they deserve some praise for achieving a clear, uncluttered and appealing layout.