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.
Best,
David
