On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 22:16:20 -0600
"Sean M. Burke" <sbu...@cpan.org> 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.


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