Frankly, I don't see the point in discussing whether "CPAN needs an XHTML rootlevel namespace" in this forum. Perlmonks doesn't control CPAN, perlmonks isn't the sole user of CPAN, nor does perlmonks run the modules mailinglist. The latter is the place to ask, if you want to bother asking them (I certainly wouldn't).

There isn't any technical reason you should ask permission. If you think XHTML::Table is a good name, just upload it to PAUSE, and it will be distributed over the mirrors and people will be able to install XHTML::Table. About all that can happen is that the module cabal won't like you choice and the module name won't appear on some list. Big deal. CPAN is quite anarchistic, and it works very well that way.

Personally, I'd use XML::XHTML::Table, but then, I would have used SGML::HTML::* instead of HTML::* as well.

Abigail

In reply to Re: RFC: New rootlevel CPAN namespace: XHTML by Abigail-II
in thread RFC: New rootlevel CPAN namespace: XHTML by jeffa

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