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in thread POD translation to HTML bug?

But pod2html is a misnomer because it outputs XHTML: its output file starts with declaration

<?xml version="1.0" ?>

followed by a DOCTYPE referencing explicitly XHTML:

<!DOCTYPE html ...XHTML... !>

and self-sufficient tags are legitimately closed with  /> contrary to HTML where some closing tags may be implicit (like </p> or </li>).

Consequently, one would expect full XHTML compliance from pod2html output.

When an empty =item is detected, the translation could be <dt /> or, if "void-ness" is discovered later, <dt></dt>.

The behaviour seems to imply that =item cannot be void.

The suggested fix has the inconvenient (for me) to add an extra line containing only the bullet, thus augmenting the vertical space occupied by the notes. I could, of course, use an &nbsp; as the title but it ends up also with extra space.

Maybe the best interim fix would be an extra pass on the HTML file to detect if <dt> is immediately followed by <dd> and insert a </dt>.

This can be done with simple Perl script.

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Re^3: POD translation to HTML bug?
by taint (Chaplain) on Dec 05, 2013 at 14:27 UTC

    Seems that it might be simple to add an auto-close "feature" to pod2html. Not that it should do it, by default. But as an option. Given that the <img tag is already a self contained tag. It might be easy.

    --Chris

    #!/usr/bin/perl -Tw
use Perl::Always or die;
my $perl_version = (5.12.5);
print $perl_version;
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