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Re: Proposed Update to Netconf Charter
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 11:36:13AM +0200, Vincent Cridlig wrote:
> Let me give more details about what I proposed.
>
> The prefix concept is well defined in the XPath recommendation. I didn't
> invent this concept and I don't want to change XPath.
>
> Using XPath prefix needs a namespace declaration. This is why I
> suggested to add some namespace declaration along with the Netconf request.
> In fact, I might be wrong but I think it is not possible to fully
> support XPath without making it possible to send these declarations.
> These declarations are needed to build the expression context as
> described in the XPath recommendation.
> If a manager sends an XPath request which contains prefixes, I don't
> know how an agent could guess the related (real) namespace URI.
Thanks for this clarification. This now sounds much more reasonable.
I guess I have to go back to the XPath specs.
/js
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