Re: analysis of YANG vs. RELAX NG

[Ladislav Lhotka <[e-mail]>]

Andy Bierman píše v Po 03. 12. 2007 v 09:21 -0800:

> I strongly agree with Juergen.
> YANG is based (in part) on 18+ years experience
> with SNMP and SMI.

And ignoring the additional flexibility XML can provide.

> 
> It s absolutely forbidden in NM to redefine the syntax and semantics
> of a managed object in this way.

Why? Even if I explicitly specify I am using another data model? The
difference is that if the data model is easily extensible, I can just
write

import parent-model;

and then 5 lines or so describing the differences, so that it is
immediately clear what I am doing (and hopefully why). If the
extensibility is weak, I have to take the parent model, change few lines
and declare it as a new data model - but the differences are not that
clear.

Lada
 
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