Fine. here then. :) This, saved as pod2include.pl, should allow you to:

=for include todo.pod
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And run

pod2include.pl yourscript.pl |pod2html --title "YourScript"
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Or, in fact, pipe the output to anything that expects POD (not just pod2html). It's a rough hack, but hopefully helpful.

package main;
# Pod Include parser.

=head1 USAGE

    pod2include.pl <filename>

    <fn_switch> = a switch that must preceed the filename for the chil
+d
                  parser. use an empty string (e.g. '') if the parser
              doesn't require one.

=head1 POD CONVENTIONS

This formatter creates a .pod file based on the original input file, b
+ut with
"include" interpolations.  Any line that reads similar to

    =for include filename.pod

will cause the text in C<filename.pod> to be included at that point.  
+Other
formatters will simply skip the file.

The output of this formatter is POD printed to STDOUT.  This is suitab
+le  for
piping to (for example) pod2html.

=cut

use strict; use warnings;
use IO::File;

for (@ARGV) {
    my $source = $_;
    my $IN = IO::File->new($source,'<') or die ("Can't read $source: $
+!");
    my $SCRATCH = IO::File->new(">&STDOUT") or die ("Can't clone STDOU
+T: $!");

    my $p = Parser->new();
    $p->parse_from_filehandle($IN, $SCRATCH);

    $IN->close;
    $SCRATCH->close;
}


#=====================================================================
+=========
package Parser;
use base 'Pod::Parser';

sub preprocess_paragraph {
    my ($self, $content) = @_;
    
    my $text;
    
    if ($content =~ /^=for include (.*)/) {
        my $file = $1;
        $file =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//s;
        if ( -f $file ) {
            open my $SOURCE, '<', $file or die ("Can't source $file: $
+!");
            $text = join('',<$SOURCE>)."\n\n";
            close $SOURCE;
        }
        else {
            $text = "I<Can't find file '$file' during include>.\n\n";
        }
    }
    else {
        $text = Pod::Parser::preprocess_paragraph(@_);
    }
    
    return $text;
}
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