[netmod] metadata in JSON

[Ladislav Lhotka <[e-mail]>]

Hi,

as I mentioned in Toronto, the mapping of XML attributes to JSON cannot
represent namespaces of attributes, which is IMO a serious deficiency.

Now, since YANG 1.1 issue Y33 (add "attribute" statement) was shot DEAD,
we need to find another way for attribute namespace encoding.

Peter Saint-Andre once proposed a generic method in the expired draft

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-saintandre-json-namespaces-00

For example,

<flag xmlns:ex="http://example.com" ex:foo="a">true</flag>

would be mapped as follows:

"flag": true,
"@flag": {
  "{http://example.com}foo": "a"
}

This is of course not very nice as namespace URIs will often be longer
than in this example. Any other suggestions?

Thanks, Lada

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