On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 03:05:23PM -0400, Stephen P. Potter wrote:
> 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.
Well, really it just means that, if you do have two identical items in two
different sections, then any POD which links to either of those two items
should include the section and the item in the L<>.
Ronald
