In my pod, if I have something like this: 

 
 For more information, see L<thisfile.html>

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When parsed

(EDIT: I'm currently using the pod2html utility, ala: 

 
system("pod2html --infile $the_pod_source --outfile $the_pod_source\.h
+tml");

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, I'll get an error like this: 
 
 cannot resolve L<thisfile.html> in paragraph xxx.

If I set the above to something like: 

 
 For more information, see L<http://example.com/thisfile.html>

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and, "http://example.com/thisfile.html" exists, it works.

Any way to turn off the "check if it's actually there" test? I've got C<pod2html> in a little makefile - type script, so there's times where it's not going to be around in a URL and may not be around in the environment it's being parsed and created.

Update:

using the pod2html utility, I thought I'd see if passing the, --htmlroot parameter would help things - giving a base to place the relative URL to - no dice.

I guess the question *really* is, how do you pass a relative URL to an HTML document inside an L<> thingy in POD. If you can't, I guess I'm outta luck.

I guess I'll also look at the P6 version of POD and see if there's a way in there for the future. (crosses fingers)

 

-justin simoni
skazat me

In reply to POD L<> and relative links? by skazat

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