require 5; package Pod::Simple::PullParserToken; # Base class for tokens gotten from Pod::Simple::PullParser's $parser->get_token @ISA = (); $VERSION = '2.02'; use strict; sub new { # Class->new('type', stuff...); ## Overridden in derived classes anyway my $class = shift; return bless [@_], ref($class) || $class; } sub type { $_[0][0] } # Can't change the type of an object sub dump { Pod::Simple::pretty( [ @{ $_[0] } ] ) } sub is_start { $_[0][0] eq 'start' } sub is_end { $_[0][0] eq 'end' } sub is_text { $_[0][0] eq 'text' } 1; __END__ sub dump { '[' . _esc( @{ $_[0] } ) . ']' } # JUNK: sub _esc { return '' unless @_; my @out; foreach my $in (@_) { push @out, '"' . $in . '"'; $out[-1] =~ s/([^- \:\:\.\,\'\>\<\"\/\=\?\+\|\[\]\{\}\_a-zA-Z0-9_\`\~\!\#\%\^\&\*\(\)])/ sprintf( (ord($1) < 256) ? "\\x%02X" : "\\x{%X}", ord($1)) /eg; } return join ', ', @out; } __END__ =head1 NAME Pod::Simple::PullParserToken -- tokens from Pod::Simple::PullParser =head1 SYNOPSIS Given a $parser that's an object of class Pod::Simple::PullParser (or a subclass)... while(my $token = $parser->get_token) { $DEBUG and print "Token: ", $token->dump, "\n"; if($token->is_start) { ...access $token->tagname, $token->attr, etc... } elsif($token->is_text) { ...access $token->text, $token->text_r, etc... } elsif($token->is_end) { ...access $token->tagname... } } (Also see L) =head1 DESCRIPTION When you do $parser->get_token on a L, you should get an object of a subclass of Pod::Simple::PullParserToken. Subclasses will add methods, and will also inherit these methods: =over =item $token->type This returns the type of the token. This will be either the string "start", the string "text", or the string "end". Once you know what the type of an object is, you then know what subclass it belongs to, and therefore what methods it supports. Yes, you could probably do the same thing with code like $token->isa('Pod::Simple::PullParserEndToken'), but that's not so pretty as using just $token->type, or even the following shortcuts: =item $token->is_start This is a shortcut for C<< $token->type() eq "start" >> =item $token->is_text This is a shortcut for C<< $token->type() eq "text" >> =item $token->is_end This is a shortcut for C<< $token->type() eq "end" >> =item $token->dump This returns a handy stringified value of this object. This is useful for debugging, as in: while(my $token = $parser->get_token) { $DEBUG and print "Token: ", $token->dump, "\n"; ... } =back =head1 SEE ALSO My subclasses: L, L, and L. L and L =head1 COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS Copyright (c) 2002 Sean M. Burke. All rights reserved. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. =head1 AUTHOR Sean M. Burke C =cut