in reply to Re^4: POD translation to HTML bug? (pod2html)
in thread POD translation to HTML bug?

No offence was intended.

Great, none was taken :)

... =pod ...

Well, that isn't valid pod, just like I mentioned earlier 

$ podchecker junk.pod
*** ERROR: =pod directives shouldn't be over one line long!  Ignoring 
+all 7 lines of content at line 1 in file junk.pod
junk.pod does not contain any pod commands.

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To make it valid pod write 

=pod

=over

=item Z<>

Sample paragraph

=item Non-empty

Second sample

=back

=cut

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So you'll get (after running through xml_pp) 

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w
+3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  <head>
    <title></title>
    <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="content-type"
+/>
    <link href="mailto:" rev="made"/>
  </head>
  <body style="background-color: white">
    <dl>
      <dt id=""></dt>
      <dd>
        <p>Sample paragraph</p>
      </dd>
      <dt id="Non-empty">Non-empty</dt>
      <dd>
        <p>Second sample</p>
      </dd>
    </dl>
  </body>
</html>

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so its xhtml, its all balanced and proper nesting ... sure the id is invalid but thats no big deal :) 

$ perldoc pod2html |ack ::
    See Pod::Html for a list of known bugs in the translator.
    perlpod, Pod::Html

$ mversion Pod::Html
1.1502
$ module_info -p -m Pod::Html

Name:        Pod::Html
Version:     1.1502
Directory:   D:\citruslib
File:        D:\citruslib\Pod\Html.pm
Core module: yes

Modules used:
    Carp
    Config
    Cwd
    Exporter
    File::Basename
    File::Spec
    File::Spec::Unix
    Getopt::Long
    Pod::Simple::Search
    base
    locale
    strict
    vars
    warnings

Packages created:
    Pod::Html   1.1502
    Pod::Simple::XHTML::LocalPodLinks   (no version)

$ corelist -a Pod::Html | ack 5.14
  v5.14.0    1.11
  v5.14.1    1.11
  v5.14.2    1.11
  v5.14.3    1.11
  v5.14.4    1.11

So Pod::Html v1.11 is about 3 years and 60 commits ago, before it used Pod::Simple

So the pod2html you're complaining is really old and unsupported from a version of perl that is not supported anymore

:)

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