Given a pod fragment like: 
=begin html

<br>Figure 1.<IMG SRC="figure1.png"><br>
 
=end html

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why does pod2html translate it to: 
<PRE>
<CODE>
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>wall.txt</TITLE>
<LINK REV="made" HREF="mailto:">
</HEAD>

<BODY>

<A NAME="__index__"></A>
<!-- INDEX BEGIN -->
<!-- INDEX END -->

<P>&lt;br&gt;Figure 1.&lt;IMG SRC=``figure1.png''&gt;&lt;br&gt;</P>

</BODY>

</HTML>

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Before any suggest RTFM, the example is taken from perlpod itself. Podchecker also reports no problems. I've not yet begun to dive into the source, but if this isn't a bug, it's certainly not a very useful feature. I do know that if you comment out the blank lines in the source, it translates correctly—so it obviously is related to the blank line problem referred to in Common Pod Pitfalls even though these lines have no spaces that might cause problems.

hsm

In reply to Pod2html Problem by hsmyers

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
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