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Re: NETCONF Instance Identifiers
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 07:34:37AM -0700, Andy Bierman wrote:
> Several people have requested that we solve this problem.
> I don't think it needs to be tied to the Notification work,
> but it is useful for notification content to have a common way to describe
> a particular instance of an XML element within a NETCONF data model.
>
> It seems to me this problem is fairly simple.
> It seems to me we could agree on naming without agreeing
> on any particular data modeling language constructs,
> because an instance identifier is just an absolute Xpath expression.
Using xpath (or a subset of it) is fine with me. I note, however, that
once we go down this path, we have a situation where we use instance
identifiers where subtree filtering is unable to select such
instances. Personally, I believe this is fine since I disliked the
introduction of subtree filtering in the first place...
/js
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