Bug#537720: FTBFS: pod invalid

Russ Allbery rra at debian.org
Mon Jul 20 17:44:14 UTC 2009


Jonathan Yu <jonathan.i.yu at gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:16 AM, gregor herrmann<gregoa at debian.org> wrote:

>> -L<http://www.xmltwig.com/article/extending_xml_xpath/ > for background
>> +L<http://www.xmltwig.com/article/extending_xml_xpath/> for background
>>  information. The last section of the article summarizes how to reuse XML::XPath.
>>  As XML::XPathEngine offers the same API it should help you

>> And, lo and behold, the test passes.

>> So: is this a problem with the POD in lib/XML/XPathEngine.pm or a
>> problem in Test::POD's parsing?

> Definitely looks like a problem with Test::Pod -- I highly recommend
> forwarding this bug upstream and try to get a fix ASAP.

While the code may be less than ideal, whitespace is significant inside
formatting codes with single angle brackets, so I believe the diagnostic
is warranted, if not correctly expressed.  The former URL had a trailing
space as part of the URL which probably isn't the actual URL for the
resource.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>





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