Re: Lack of html anchor for =item * foo

[email protected] ("David E. Wheeler") Tue, 26 Apr 2011 10:02:15 -0700

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On Apr 26, 2011, at 9:51 AM, Karl Williamson wrote:

> I discovered that in html output of lists that have elements of the form
> =item * foo
> no <a> anchor is generated for foo; this is different from lists of the form
> =item foo
> 
> The first case generates a <ul> list, and the second a <dl> list.
> The problem is that in the first form, any link in the file to 'foo' is broken, since there is no anchor for it.
> 
> Is this deliberate?  Should it be changed?

I think it is deliberate because

    =item * foo

Is no different from 

    =item *

    foo

That is, it's just a bullet, it has no name associated with it. <dt>s, OTOH, do have a name.

FWIW, Pod::Simple::XHTML doesn't output an ID for <dt>s, either.

Best,

David