I'm having a bit of a problem with pod2html rendering =item cross-references with invalid target fragment names. The following POD snippets demonstrate the problem:

Foo.pod:

=head1 Foo stuff

Stuff about Foo.

=over

=item foo

see L<Bar/foo>

This hack works: L<foo in the Bar manpage|Bar/item_foo>

=back


Bar.pod:

=head1 Bar stuff

Stuff about Bar.

=over

=item foo

this item was referenced in Foo.

=back
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The input PODs are processed with this shell command:

for f in {Foo,Bar}.pod
do pod2html \
    --htmlroot=file:/ \
    --outfile=${f%.pod}.html \
    --podpath=$PWD \
    --verbose $f
done
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In Bar.html the A element for the POD =item "foo" is named "item_foo":

<a name="item_foo">foo</a>
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Foo.html includes this A element for the cross reference. The target fragment name is "foo", but it seems that it should be "item_foo":

see <a href="file:///home/me/perltestlib/DST/XBase/Bar.html#foo">foo i
+n the Bar manpage</a>
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The reference listed after "This hack works" produces the desired output:

<a href="file:///home/me/perltestlib/DST/XBase/pod_problem/Bar.html#it
+em_foo">foo in the Bar manpage</a>
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perl is version 5.8.0 (Linux).

I know I've probably ventured into "there are better alternatives to Pod::Html" territory, but am I missing or misunderstanding something in the documentation, or is the aforementioned workaround the only way to get valid =item cross-references?

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