Re: Deja vu Again

[Phil Shafer <phil@juniper.net>]

Eliot Lear writes:
>I am aware of much of what's out there.  We have (a lot of) running 
>code.  F5 has running code.  Juniper in fact presented to the IETF, if 
>you will recall.

'presented' is too kind a word ;^) There's a reason they don't
let me out of the office ;^)

>There are a dozen different ways to do the same thing, 
>today.  Not just one.

Amen. And even the small points will be painful without consistency
even in vendor-specific areas. When does one use attributes verses
elements? How does the layout of elements affect the efficiency of
xpath/xquery matches?

>This is not to say that one couldn't have 
>an "xml" command to get you into an XML mode from the CLI.  But we need 
>something in addition to that for the sake of the stability of 
>provisioning apps.

Yup, the xml-mode command gives a mechanism to use an connection
as an xml pipe, but some more formal for the normal case is
worthwhile.

Thanks,
 Phil

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