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# Pod::Simple::LinkSection

represent "section" attributes of L codes

## SYNOPSIS

```text
## a long story
```

## DESCRIPTION

This class is not of interest to general users.

Pod::Simple uses this class for representing the value of the
"section" attribute of "L" start-element events.  Most applications
can just use the normal stringification of objects of this class;
they stringify to just the text content of the section,
such as "foo" for
`L<Stuff/foo>`, and "bar" for
`L<Stuff/bI<ar>>`.

However, anyone particularly interested in getting the full value of
the treelet, can just traverse the content of the treeleet
@$treelet\_object.  To wit:

```perl
  % perl -MData::Dumper -e
    "use base qw(Pod::Simple::Methody);
     sub start_L { print Dumper($_[1]{'section'} ) }
     __PACKAGE__->new->parse_string_document('=head1 L<Foo/bI<ar>baz>>')
    "
Output:
  $VAR1 = bless( [
                   '',
                   {},
                   'b',
                   bless( [
                            'I',
                            {},
                            'ar'
                          ], 'Pod::Simple::LinkSection' ),
                   'baz'
                 ], 'Pod::Simple::LinkSection' );
```

But stringify it and you get just the text content:

```perl
  % perl -MData::Dumper -e
    "use base qw(Pod::Simple::Methody);
     sub start_L { print Dumper( '' . $_[1]{'section'} ) }
     __PACKAGE__->new->parse_string_document('=head1 L<Foo/bI<ar>baz>>')
    "
Output:
  $VAR1 = 'barbaz';
```

## SEE ALSO

[Pod::Simple](../Simple.md)

## SUPPORT

Questions or discussion about POD and Pod::Simple should be sent to the
pod-people@perl.org mail list. Send an empty email to
pod-people-subscribe@perl.org to subscribe.

This module is managed in an open GitHub repository,
[https://github.com/perl-pod/pod-simple/](https://github.com/perl-pod/pod-simple/). Feel free to fork and contribute, or
to clone [https://github.com/perl-pod/pod-simple.git](https://github.com/perl-pod/pod-simple.git) and send patches!

Patches against Pod::Simple are welcome. Please send bug reports to
<bug-pod-simple@rt.cpan.org>.

## COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS

Copyright (c) 2004 Sean M. Burke.

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.

## AUTHOR

Pod::Simple was created by Sean M. Burke <sburke@cpan.org>.
But don't bother him, he's retired.

Pod::Simple is maintained by:

- Allison Randal `allison@perl.org`
- Hans Dieter Pearcey `hdp@cpan.org`
- David E. Wheeler `dwheeler@cpan.org`