This is a little on the kludgy side, but one approach I take for $work POD is to post-parse and process (whew! A lot of 'P's!) the pod2html output. I have a little CGI script that does a real-time pod2html conversion (it is pretty fast) for whatever module a user picks out of a list and then edits the resulting HTML on the fly before presenting it. I tweak things like the title displayed and add in default text when the POD is incomplete or flawed.