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Re: Proposed Update to Netconf Charter
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 04:40:30PM -0700, Andy Bierman wrote:
> >While all this sounds reasonable, I am really surprised that you
> >propose XPATH expressions given the lengthy discussion in the past
> >that XPATH expressions are too expensive for filtering. Or is it
> >because you expect access control on the 2nd tier not to be
> >mandatory to implement and an optional feature like XPATH
> >filtering?
>
> I am envisioning that a simple absolute path expression be the mandatory
> requirement and full XPATH expressions would be optional. This restricted
> XPATH is what we have within the 'rpc-error' structure, and the WG
> already agreed on this simple string format which happens to be a
> particular subset of XPATH.
I must have missed that. Makes it even more interesting since subsetting
XPATH for filtering was also rejected in favour of a home-grown filtering
mechanism.
/js
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