XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Mike Fitzgerald <mikefz AT wyeast.net>]

IMO, 'comatose' is an excellent choice of words, alive with meaning. I don't 
think you could come up with a keener word.

Mike

ot: comma-tose -- a condition suffered by a weary editor, usually late at 
night

Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> At 11:21 AM +0000 3/26/04, dvholten AT computer.org wrote:
>
> > hi there,
> >
> > i read API's - a lot of them - but i never came across that word for 
> > something which has to do with 'data'.
> > It's not even in my english dictionary...
>
> 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.