`=item 1. Text` Doesn't Produce Ordered List Item

[email protected] (David E . Wheeler) Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:55:33 -0700

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This Pod:

    =over

    =item 1 Item 1

    =item 2 Item 2

    =back

Yields this output from Pod::Simple:

    % perldoc -MPod::Simple::XHTML list.pod

    <html>
    <head>
    <title></title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
    </head>
    <body>


    <h1 id="Title">Title</h1>

    <dl>

    <dt>1 Item 1</dt>
    <dd>

    </dd>
    <dt>2 Item 2</dt>
    <dd>

    </dd>
    </dl>

    </body>
    </html>

A definition list isn't what I would expect. If I use an asterisk instead of numbers (e.g., `=item * some text`), I'd get an unordered list. So why shouldn't `=item 1 some text` give me an ordered list? FWIW, pod2html does.

So should `item 1 some text` be an ordered list item, as suggested output by pod2html, or a definition list as currently implemented by Pod::Simple? I think the former.

Thoughts?

Thanks,

David