perl pod link to anoter document

vlad_tepesch has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi.

I want to embed a (in html clickable) link to another file that have to be in same direcory into text

L<file:///..myFile.html> does not work since i can not specify files in same directory with a absolute path

L<myFile.html> does not work because pod expected this to be some section of current document.

are there any options beside writing whole paragraph in a "=begin html"/"=end html" block?

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Re: perl pod link to anoter document by moritz (Cardinal) on Apr 27, 2012 at 09:45 UTC
I haven't tried it, but you can specify relative paths with `file://` URLs, you just have to use two slashes instead of three. (The two slashes are part of the protocol specification, if there is a third one, it's the leading slash of an absolute path). Perl 6 - the future is here, just unevenly distributed	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: perl pod link to anoter document by vlad_tepesch (Acolyte) on Apr 27, 2012 at 12:04 UTC
i tried this and it did not work. the results are empty file links (file:///) http://perldoc.perl.org/perlpod.html says Or you can link to a web page: L<scheme:...> L<text\|scheme:...> Links to an absolute URL. For example, L<http://www.perl.org/> or L<The Perl Home Page\|http://www.perl.org/>.	[reply]
Re^3: perl pod link to anoter document by Anonymous Monk on Apr 27, 2012 at 12:30 UTC
i tried this and it did not work. You tried what? ro.pod `=head1 LINKS TO SHAM BO C<<< file:sham.html >>> L<file:sham.html> C<<< file:./sham.html >>> L<file:./sham.html> BOGUS LINKS, ABSOLUTE NOT RELATIVE ACCORDING TO FIREFOX C<<< file://sham.html >>> L<file://sham.html> C<<< file://./sham.html >>> L<file://./sham.html> =cut` [download] This fails (I expected this, many bugs in pod2html) `pod2html ro.pod > ro.html` This works `perl -MPod::Simple::HTML -e Pod::Simple::HTML::go ro.pod ro.html` This works `pom2 html ro.pod > ro.html` This works :) plackup -l localhost:80 -e require(Pod::POM::Web::PSGI)	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: perl pod link to anoter document by vlad_tepesch (Acolyte) on Apr 27, 2012 at 13:48 UTC
Re: perl pod link to anoter document by Anonymous Monk on Apr 27, 2012 at 10:21 UTC
are there any options beside writing whole paragraph in a "=begin html"/"=end html" block? `=for html this html of mine =cut` [download] But I don't see why you'd mix pod and html, write links to pod documents, otherwise do it all with your favorite html editor	[reply] [d/l]