On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Shawn H Corey <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 22:16:20 -0600 > "Sean M. Burke" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> But I think we should also hold pod parsers to a high standard of >> keeping quiet when simple heuristics are unproblematically applied. > > I'm not sure about that. One of the reason why there's so much trashy > HTML out there is because browsers accept it without complaint. I mean, > look at the problems of parsing this: > > =item 1. An Example > > When they really meant: > > =item 1. > > B<An Example> > > As the old saying goes: it's the squeaky wheel that gets fixed.
This was a concern before HTML5, but now the trend is to work with the HTML you have and handle errors, not to force the HTML to be more strict. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5#Error_handling So, even we don't call those documents valid POD, it's OK if we handle the way they deviate from the spec in a helpful way. Regards. > > -- > Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, > Shawn > > Programming is as much about organization and communication > as it is about coding. > > _Perl links_ > official site : http://www.perl.org/ > beginners' help : http://learn.perl.org/faq/beginners.html > advance help : http://perlmonks.org/ > documentation : http://perldoc.perl.org/ > news : http://perlsphere.net/ > repository : http://www.cpan.org/ > blog : http://blogs.perl.org/ > regional groups : http://www.pm.org/ -- Will "Coke" Coleda
