Re: Lack of html anchor for =item * foo

[email protected] (Karl Williamson)
Newsgroups perl.pod-people
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 04/26/2011 11:02 AM, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> 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.
>

When I do a perldoc -ohtml, what module is getting called that does 
generate an ID for <dt>s ?
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