Re: XHTML formatter 'xhtml' regions

[email protected] (Allison Randal)
Newsgroups perl.pod-people
Message-ID <[email protected]>
David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Dec 11, 2009, at 10:58 AM, Ricardo Signes wrote:
> 
>>>  http://github.com/rjbs/pod-simple/tree/xhtml-region
>> David and I spoke about this on AIM a little...
>>
>> Right now, given this input in Pod::Simple::HTML:
>>
>>  =begin html
>>
>>  <div>...</div>
>>
>>  =end html
>>
>> The HTML is passed through untouched.  If you do the same thing in
>> Pod::Simple::XHTML, the HTML is entity escaped before being passed along.
>>
>> I had assumed this was intentional, and my changes add an 'xhtml' region which
>> is untouched.  David suggested that this is an error.
>>
>> Anybody know?  I would like to get this sorted out so I can rely on it. :)

According to perlpodspec, '=for html' is supposed to be a pass-through, 
and '=for :html' is supposed to do normal processing on the contents of 
the block. So, the current behaviour of Pod::Simple::XHTML can be 
considered a bug.

Allison
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