Re: Pod::Simple doesn't warn when the text of a definition =item matches /[\*\d]/; and a fix to this bug

On Jan 18, 2013, at 7:31 AM, Ricardo Signes <[email protected]> wrote:

>> I hope we can agree that if the test results bit gets sorted out, we're in
>> favor of this warning..?
> 
> I have submitted https://github.com/theory/pod-simple/pull/44

+1. Will merge it if there are no objections.

> I also had the idea, mentioned in the commits, that we could consider replacing
> the XML output for testing with JSON output.  This would make it easier to test
> subsections and identify structural differences, since we have a JSON parser in
> core but not an XML parser.

Good idea, though it will require that older versions of Perl install a JSON parser just to run the tests…

David