> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Shafer [mailto:phil@juniper.net]
> Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 7:26 AM
> To: Juergen Schoenwaelder
> Cc: netconf@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: Re: Separation of configuration and control - good or bad?
>
> Juergen Schoenwaelder writes:
> >It seems to work in other places, so why not here?
>
> Not that it can't work, just a matter of ease. If I want to pull
> down a configuration, do some changes to it and hand it back to the
> device, it's nice to have the format I hand back to the device be
> the same as what the device gave me. This allows simple transformations
> (ala xslt) in the pattern of:
>
> $config = $jnx->get_configuration();
> $new = transform($config, $stylesheet);
> $jnx->load_configuration($new);
>
Phil's approach also lends itself well to tools which provide deltas on xml documents.
<configuration>
<rip somenamespace:delta="add">
<version>2</version>
<redistribute>
<connected/>
</redistribute>
<network>172.22.0.0</network>
</rip>
</configuration>
> Thanks,
> Phil
>
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