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  • From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>
  • To: Bill de hÓra <bill AT dehora.net>
  • Cc: xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] comatose
  • Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 09:00:07 -0500

At 5:13 PM +0000 3/26/04, Bill de hÓra wrote:
Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:

FYI, it's a medical term that means "in a coma", i.e. asleep and not waking up. It's was my punnish attempt to indicate that the lists are not live like JDOM's and DOM's, but not dead either. They're in between. I suppose I could call them undead (or unlive perhaps?) but does anyone have a better suggestion.

fixed

Fixed would imply the list can't be changed. That's true for Elements, but it's not true for Nodes which includes insert and append methods.
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Elliotte Rusty Harold
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Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
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