---
name: "pod2axpoint.xsl"
section: "3pm"
platform: "linux"
package: "libpod-sax-perl"
version: "0.14-4"
release: "Debian 5.0 (Lenny)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/pod2axpoint.xsl"
---

# pod2axpoint.xsl(3pm)

pod2axpoint.xsl - Stylesheet to convert XMLified POD to AxPoint format Use Perl to generate XML from POD:

```
  use XML::SAX::Writer;
  use Pod::SAX;
  my $source = shift(@ARGV) or die;
  my $output = shift (@ARGV) ⎪⎪ \*STDOUT;
  my $p = Pod::SAX->new({Handler => XML::SAX::Writer->new()});
  $p->parse_uri($source);
```

No perl needed to transform the result to axpoint:

```
  xsltproc pod2axpoint.xsl foo.pod.xml > foo.axp
```

Finally transform that with the axpoint script to PDF:

```
  axpoint foo.axp foo.pdf
```

Pod is convenient to write markup. AxPoint is a powerful, prominent presentation markup. This XSLT stylesheet attempts to close the gap between POD and AxPoint. It is meant only for a subset of POD, not all of it. The idea is to let you write presentations in POD to convert to axpoint format, not to convert any POD document to a presentation. Actually, it fails on a broad variety of real world POD documents. It is also meant only for a subset of AxPoint. The `"transition"` attribute for the `"title"`, `"slide"`, and `"point"` element are not accessible through POD directives. Nor is the `"metadata"` section or the `"image"`, `"colour"`, `"table"`, `"rect"`, `"circle"`, `"ellipse"`, `"line"`, and `"text"` elements. To make these options available, it is necessary to edit the stylesheet itself. You are expected to edit pod2axpoint.xsl to contain the speaker, organisation, etc., maybe a background image, or other metadata. A `"=head1"` in the POD starts a new slide and sets the title. The very first `"=head1"` sets the headline on the title page. Anything between the first and the second `"=head1"` is ignored. Edit the stylesheet metadata section to fill the titlepage. Every paragraph is a point. There are other ways to generate points too:\
 **This is the content of a head2 tag** *This is the content of a head3 tag* And a paragraph within this item. As a paragraph is a point itself, we enter recursion here and the point gets a deeper level. A paragraph with **bold** text, *italic* text, some `"$code+@code"`, all of them produced with the POD inline tags. The next paragraph is indented POD, so that it must be rendered as source code:

```
    sub foo { @{[[1,2]]} };
    my ($one,$two) = @{foo()};
    # my ($list) = foo(); my ($one,$two) = @$list;
    print "1[$one] 2[$two]\n";
```

And this is the third (and last) paragraph on this slide. Enjoy nesting (the paragraph) Enjoy nesting next level (the paragraph) Enjoy nesting 3rd (the paragraph) In the root directory of the Pod::SAX distribution, run

```
    make pdf
```

and all conversions will happen, finally acroread will be called to display the slideshow.