Hi, I thought that was weird, and was digging a bit in the Pod::HTML module, and I think there is a small bug in process_text1, that can be corrected with this small patch: 
--- Html.pm     2005-07-01 14:48:23.000000000 +0100
+++ Html.pm.new 2005-07-01 14:48:52.000000000 +0100
@@ -1549,7 +1549,7 @@
        my( $page, $section, $ident );

        # check for link patterns
-       if( $par =~ m{^([^/]+?)/(?!")(.*?)$} ){     # name/ident
+       if( $par =~ m{^([^/]+)?/(?!")(.*?)$} ){     # name/ident
             # we've got a name/ident (no quotes)
             ( $page, $ident ) = ( $1, $2 );
             ### print STDERR "--> L<$par> to page $page, ident $ident
+\n";

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This is based in the version I have installed: 
$VERSION = 1.0503;

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In reply to Re: creating links to an =item in the same page via pod2html by themage
in thread creating links to an =item in the same page via pod2html by ysth

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