Re: Lack of html anchor for =item * foo
[email protected] (Karl Williamson)
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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 ?