Re: [netmod] rfc6991-bis: "token" type?

[Jan Lindblad <[e-mail]>]

William, Kent,

> Does the last pattern work? I think it matches any string with two consecutive non-spaces, e.g. "AA  AA" ("AA" + two-spaces + "AA").
> 
> To prevent multiple spaces I think we probably need something like "([^ ]+ )*[^ ]+" (which replaces the last three patterns).
> 
> Do XML regexes support \S (not-whitespace)? If so then I think that "(\S+ )*\S+" covers everything (although also excludes FF and any other whitespace characters if there are any).

William is right in his observation. I had on my todo list to point this out, but I got side tracked :)
An easy way to express this in YANG (1.1) is:

// reject values with two consecutive spaces
pattern "  " { // two spaces
  modifier invert-match;
}

/jan