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GrandFather has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm trying to create nested item lists using POD. The simple test POD:

=over 4 =item Item Entry - left justified, but as designed :( item description - fine =over 4 =item Nested item entry - not fine, not indented nested item's description, ok wrt item, but indented to 8 expected =back =back

renders as

Item Entry - left justified, but as designed :( item description - fine Nested item entry - not fine, not indented nested item's description, ok wrt item, but indented to 8 expected

where I expected the items to look like:

Item Entry - left justified, but as designed :( item description - fine Nested item entry - not fine, not indented nested item's description, ok wrt item, but indented to 8 expe +cted

The issue seems to be that pod2html is generating

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

but if I replace that with

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

(as generated by PerlMonks) the nesting is as I expect. Is this a problem with pod2html as shipped by ActiveState with their Perl v5.8.7 distribution, or is there something that I am missing?


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