XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[dvholten AT computer.org]

sure, i figured out what that means...

It might be an obvious and nifty term for an native english speaker - but 
for the rest of the world
it's not a word you learn at scool. And programmers, reading lots of 
english technical texts, dont come 
across that often either.

words like 'disconnected, detached, unlinked, orphaned, hibernating, 
frozen' etc are 'known' or 'expected'
in this context.

Why do we evangelise the use of patterns, ideoms and the principle of the 
least surprise ?
One look, and you know, what is meant. - when a non native english speaker 
hits 'comatose' -
it's ' ??? äh ?? coma-what ?? '  - sure - we can figure it out - but its a 
small, unnecessary distraction .

If this mail-list had a larger audience, this very discussion would make 
'comatose' famous, well known
and eventually replace 'disconnected...frozen' in this technical context.

dvholten
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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.

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