Re: [rt.cpan.org #74389] Pod::Simple::Pullparser get_title should ignore X<...>

[email protected] ("David E. Wheeler")
Newsgroups perl.pod-people
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On Jan 29, 2012, at 6:29 AM, Ricardo Signes wrote:

> And "NAME" and not "NAME "
> 
> It should probably not just become an empty string, but it should be collapse
> whitespace around it, so pathological cases like:
> 
> =head1 NAME X<foo> THIS X<bar> TUNE
> X<baz>
> 
> ...should be "NAME THIS TUNE"
> 
> But in the simpler case, I think that "NAME" and not "NAME " is actually likely
> to come up.

Okay, so if I follow this thread correctly, the upshot is that:

• Pod::Simple::HTML needs to be fixed so that it does not include the contents of X<>
• The parser overall should be adjusted to remove superfluous whitespace

Correct?

David
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