Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and "Sean M. Burke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> whisp
ered:
| At 04:47 PM 2001-04-20 -0400, Ronald J Kimball wrote:
| So if the HTML anchorname for something is made from its section name, a
| '-', and its item name, that means that you can't easily HTMLify a
| Potter-syntax link like L<text|Foo:baz> (where there's an item but no
| section) -- because you'd need to actually look at the document Foo (in its
| HTML output, which might not exist yet? in its POD original?), and see
| what section contains a 'baz' item, so that you can know what to use for
| 'somesection' in <A HREF="/path/to/Foo/somesection-baz">.
No, you'd just make it be <A NAME="#-blah">. This does mean that you can't
have two items in two different sections that are exactly the same.
Hmm.. that is a bit of a problem, but less so than the current situation.
| That's what I mean saying that Stephen Potter's suggestion (such as I
| understood it) made HTMLification hard, all for the sake of some extra
| semantics that we've gotten this far without (and that I for one never
| missed).
You've never seen the lengths that people have gone through to make special
purpose pod translaters.
| Making HTMLification /easy/ would be if one could translate
| L<text|Foo/stuff> without having to inspect the document Foo. If one
I'm more concerned with the general case of usability and convertability
than just HTMLification.
-spp
