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Margaret Wasserman wrote:
Hi Larry,
... are there important technical differences
between your proposed approach and the approach currently
used in the XMLCONF spec? If so, could you explain what
they are?
Margaret,
The approach currently used in the XMLCONF spec does not
provide a way to specify which element is the target element that is
to be operated upon.
.
Consequently, a request to add, for example, an MD5 key to what
you intend to be an existing interface instance within an OSPF area might
end up causing the creation of an OSPF instance, the creation of
an OSPF area, and the creation of an OSPF interface instance, and
the creation of the desired MD5 key. There is no way to express that
you only wish to create an MD5 key and you will not know
from the response that instead of a simple operation you have executed
a complex one. I believe that characteristics like these are undesireable.
Thanks,
Larry
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