[Typo3] dropdown_list_menu bug?

[Eric Blom]

I installed the dorpdown_list_menu extension this evening and when I  
used it I got a "> at the beginning of every menu item. It looks like  
these are left over from the link generated by Typo3 (or maybe Real  
ULR). I'm not sure if the problem is specifically with this extension  
or some other configuration, but, the solution I found was to modify  
the extensions source in the following way.

function getHref ($linkTag) {
     /* new code (edb)*/
     $patterns = array ( '/.*<(A|a) (HREF|href)="/',
                                       '/">/' );
     return preg_replace($patterns, '$3', $linkTag);

     /* old code */
     /* return preg_replace('/.*<(A|a) (HREF|href)="(.+(\.html|\.php) 
[^"]*)"[^>]*>/', '$3', $linkTag);  */
}

I'm very new to php and Typo3. Can anyone tell me if this  
modification and it's justification sound reasonable?

Cheers,
Eric