Pod's "rules" are pretty loose. In general, you can take many liberties, and if things are rendered OK by pod2man and pod2html, you'll get away with it!

But according to perlpod:

"And perhaps most importantly, keep the items consistent: either use =item * for all of them, to produce bullets; or use =item 1., =item 2., etc., to produce numbered lists; or use =item foo, =item bar, etc.--namely, things that look nothing like bullets or numbers."

I would suggest that you want bullets:

=over

=item *

Foo

=item *

Bar

=item *

Baz

=back

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PS: as per the HTML spec, the closing </dt> tag is optional. XML::Parser complains because it's an XML parser (the clue is in the name!), not an HTML parser.

use Moops; class Cow :rw { has name => (default => 'Ermintrude') }; say Cow->new->name

In reply to Re: POD translation to HTML bug? by tobyink
in thread POD translation to HTML bug? by ajl52

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