Phoenix.pm: PerlDoc question

intertwingled intertwingled at qwest.net
Tue Mar 4 06:53:13 CST 2003


You were hatched from a pod!

At 01:43 AM 3/4/03 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi folks.
>
>I'm trying to write a program that reads my Wiki source files (each page
>is a file, in a very text format, where ASCII formatting conventions
>are the mark up language).
>
>I can't get L<> to work. I've read perlpodspec. 
>
>In
http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/perlpodspec.html#About-L%3c...%3e-Codes 
>it claims that L<Link Text/Anchor> will display Link Text as a link to Anchor
>in the current document, where Anchor is marked up as:
>
>=head2 Anchor 
>
>(or another head, or =item).
>
>Nothing. I get thousands of lines of output like:
>
>/usr/bin/pod2html: perldesignpatterns.pod: cannot resolve
L<FlyweightPattern/FlyweightPattern> in paragraph 7. at
/usr/share/perl/5.6.1/Pod/Html.pm line 1562.
>
>In the perldesignpatterns.pod, down a ways, is:
>
>
>
>=head2 FlyweightPattern
>
>
>
>...in a paragraph by itself.
>
>
>I'm using the pod2html from 5.6.1 to test with. pod2latex works fine, but
it doesn't
>actually compute anchors, as far as I know, so it really wouldn't care
about whether
>or not a link target exists.
>
>Other "obvious" permutations of using L<> also end is failure.
>
>Thoughts, suggestions, flames, anyone?
>
>Also, does anyone know what parser is used at perldoc.com that produces
such lovely output?
>
>Thanks!
>
>-scott
>
>

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