I'm making a simple module that just contains all the HTML Character Entities, with two-way lookup. What should I call it? HTML::Entity-Reference? But does the dash cause problems? Maybe it should include a '4' somewhere as it's based on Character entity references in HTML 4 and I see on CPAN HTML::HTML5::Parser::NamedEntityList which is not what I want. Did the list of Entities change for HTML5? This module contains some duplicate entries without trailing semicolons (but not all) so I don't know what that's about. It also has all-caps AMP instead of amp.

I'm planning a map of (only correct!) Entity names mapped to character numbers as integers. This gives the simplest access to the information for a variety of uses, including spitting out the char itself (using chr) or a numeric entity (formatting the number as a string or a hex string), and also looking up names based on the ord of a character.

I want to consider issues of global reuse before I let it escape — er, I mean before I release it.

In reply to What should I call my module? by John M. Dlugosz

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