Re: Proposed Update to Netconf Charter

[Andy Bierman <ietf@andybierman.com>]

Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 07:11:19PM -0700, Andy Bierman wrote:
>
>  
>
> > Actually this is totally consistent with the rpc-error design.
> > The user should be able to specify a qualified name (QName)
> > like 'error-info/bad-element', or specify a node via simple XPATH, like
> > the 'error-path' element.  
> >
> > The error-path element is optional so even this trivial XPATH usage
> > can be avoided, if desired.
> >
> > IMO this is not inconsistent with the WG's choice to use subtree filtering.
> > This is an extremely restricted subset of XPATH, much easier to
> > define than a subset to do some real filtering.
> >    
>
> The future will tell us whether the mixture of some XPath here, a bit 
> less XPath there and some required other mechanism with optional XPath
> over there will be loved or seen as a curiosity.
>  

I think (hope) that over time, it will be common for NETCONF devices
to support the xpath capability, and perhaps subtree filtering will fade 
away.

As for QName vs. absolute XPATH expression, I think QName will be
used whenever possible (just as intended in rpc-error) since it is simpler.

> /js
>  
Andy




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