Re: Second Example in section 7.2 of netconf-proto

[Phil Shafer <phil@juniper.net>]

Andy Bierman writes:
>Merge and replace do not care about existing data.
>Create on data that already exists is an error.
>Delete on data that does not exist is an error.
>Replace foo with nothing is not an error.
>Merge foo with nothing is not an error.
>Replace nothing with foo is not an error.
>Merge nothing with foo is not an error.

This all jibes with my memory.  The purpose of replace was
to replace any and all matching data with the new incoming
config.  So failing if nothing exists wouldn't help anyone.
If you wanted that, you would use "create".

Thanks,
 Phil

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