L<foo> would never look for a foo.html in that directory. It would look for (for example) \html\lib\foo.html, html\site\lib\foo.html, \html\bin\foo.html, and maybe a few others (like perl -V:installsitebin -V:installuserbin).

Please read perlpod and the newer perlpodspec for details on how to use L<> tag (or at least how it's supposed to work).

Implementation should be sensitive to the existence of the target file. I probably misspoke earlier, about it being a chicken and egg problem with Pod::Html specifically (I have enhanced my copy of Pod::Html a few times).

You should not concern yourself what'll happen if the user don't have the docs for a target (or the module itself).

Just avoid whatever you thought you might be able to do using =for directives (don't do it) and stick to L<> tags, they're portable (given you use them properl, but it's easy).

update: I did some testing, and it is a chicken and egg problem, but it doesn't always happen. I ran into it during HTML::Mason installation. I also discovered a bug, L<HTML::Mason> will resolve into L<Bundle::HTML::Mason>. I'm gonna have to fix that, and submit a patch.

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In reply to Re: Re: Re: L tags in POD, with search.cpan and POD2HTML by PodMaster
in thread L tags in POD, with search.cpan and POD2HTML by John M. Dlugosz

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