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NAME
    PPI::HTML - Generate syntax-hightlighted HTML for Perl using PPI

SYNOPSIS
      use PPI;
      use PPI::HTML;
      
  # Load your Perl file
      my $Document = PPI::Document->load( 'script.pl' );
      
  # Create a reusable syntax highlighter
      my $Highlight = PPI::HTML->new( line_numbers => 1 );
      
  # Spit out the HTML
      print $Highlight->html( $Document );

DESCRIPTION
    PPI::HTML converts Perl documents into syntax highlighted HTML pages.

HISTORY
    PPI::HTML is the successor to the now-redundant PPI::Format::HTML.

    While early on it was thought that the same formatting code might be
    able to be used for a variety of different types of things (ANSI and
    HTML for example) later developments with the here-doc code and the need
    for independantly written serializers meant that this idea had to be
    discarded.

    In addition, the old module only made use of the Tokenizer, and had a
    pretty shit API to boot.

  API Overview
    The new module is much cleaner. Simply create an object with the options
    you want, pass PPI::Document objects to the "html" method, and you get
    strings of HTML that you can do whatever you want with.

METHODS
  new %args
    The "new" constructor takes a simple set of key/value pairs to define
    the formatting options for the HTML.

    page
        Is the "page" option is enabled, the generator will wrap the
        generated HTML fragment in a basic but complete page.

    line_numbers
        At the present time, the only option available. If set to true, line
        numbers are added to the output.

    colors | colours
        For cases where you don't want to use an external stylesheet, you
        can provide "colors" as a hash reference where the keys are CSS
        classes (generally matching the token name) and the values are
        colours.

        This allows basic colouring without the need for a whole stylesheet.

    css The "css" option lets you provide a custom CSS::Tiny object
        containing any CSS you want to apply to the page (if you are using
        page mode).

        If both the "colors" and "css" options are used, the colour CSS
        entries will overwrite anything contained in the CSS::Tiny object.
        The object will also be cloned if it to be modified, to prevent
        destroying any CSS objects passed in.

    Returns a new PPI::HTML object

  css
    The "css" accessor returns the CSS::Tiny object originally provided to
    the constructor.

  html $Document | $file | \$source
    The main method for the class, the "html" method takes a single
    PPI::Document object, or anything that can be turned into a
    PPI::Document via its "new" method, and returns a string of HTML
    formatted based on the arguments given to the "PPI::HTML" constructor.

    Returns a string, or "undef" on error.

SUPPORT
    Bugs should always be submitted via the CPAN bug tracker

    <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=PPI-HTML>

    For other issues, contact the maintainer

AUTHOR
    Adam Kennedy <[email protected]>

    Funding provided by The Perl Foundation

SEE ALSO
    <http://ali.as/>, PPI

COPYRIGHT
    Copyright 2005 - 2009 Adam Kennedy.

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
    under the same terms as Perl itself.

    The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included
    with this module.