L<PerlMonks|http://www.perlmonks.org/>

##</code><code>##

C:\STRAWB~1\perl\bin/pod2html.bat: ../test.pod: cannot resolve L<PerlMonks|http://www.perlmonks.org/> in paragraph 6.

##</code><code>##

# some L<>'s that shouldn't be:
# a) full-blown URL's are emitted as-is
if( $par =~ m{^\w+://}s ){
    return make_URL_href( $par );
}
# --- add this: --- 
elsif( $par =~ m{^([^|]+)\|(\w+)://(.+)}s ) {
    #link text in $1, scheme in $2, everything else in $3
    return sprintf '<a href="%s://%s">%s</a>', $2, $3, html_escape($1);
}

##</code><code>##

=over 1

=item bla

asdfghjk

=back

##</code><code>##

=over 1

=item

sdfsfgsdh

=back

##</code><code>##

if ($text =~ /\A(.+)\Z/s ){ # should have text
    emit_item_tag( $otext, $text, 1 );

    # write the definition term and close <dt> tag
    print HTML "</dt>\n";
}

##</code><code>##

if ($text =~ /\A(.+)\Z/s ){ # should have text
    emit_item_tag( $otext, $text, 1 );
}

# write the definition term and close <dt> tag
print HTML "</dt>\n";