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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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