diff --git a/lib/Perldoc/Convert/html.pm b/lib/Perldoc/Convert/html.pm
index db69bb0..8853c81 100755
--- a/lib/Perldoc/Convert/html.pm
+++ b/lib/Perldoc/Convert/html.pm
@@ -221,14 +221,25 @@ sub view_verbatim {
 
 sub view_seq_code {
   my ($self,$text) = @_;
-  
+
   #$text =~ s/>/>/sg;
   #$text =~ s/&lt;/</sg;
   #$text =~ s/&amp;/&/sg;
-  decode_entities($text);
+  #decode_entities($text);
 
   my $linkpath = '../' x (0 + $document_name =~ s/::/::/g);
-  return Perldoc::Syntax::highlight('<code class="inline">','</code>',$text,$linkpath);
+
+  my $rendered;
+  if ($text =~ /<|>/) {
+    $rendered = '<code class="inline">' . $text .'</code>';
+  } else {
+    decode_entities($text);
+    $rendered = Perldoc::Syntax::highlight('<code class="inline">','</code>',$text,$linkpath);
+  }
+  #my $rendered = Perldoc::Syntax::highlight('<code class="inline">','</code>',$text,$linkpath);
+  
+
+  return $rendered;
 }
 
 
diff --git a/std.err b/std.err
index 4296c80..e69de29 100644
--- a/std.err
+++ b/std.err
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-## Please see file SCALAR
diff --git a/syntax.cache b/syntax.cache
index 40f2109..aee6cbb 100644
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