[netmod] XPath node type tests

Robert Wilton <rwilton@cisco.com> Fri, 20 October 2017 10:13 UTC

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Subject: [netmod] XPath node type tests
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Hi,

XPATH 1.0 defines the following three node-type tests:

1) comment()
2) processing-instruction(<opt arg>)
3) text()

My assumption is that a YANG tree doesn't contain any nodes of type 
'comment' or 'processing-instruction' and hence these filters would 
never match any nodes.

However, it wasn't clear to me from reading 7950 or rfc6087bis-14 
whether text() matches anything.  In particular, does a YANG leaf node 
(except of type empty) always parent a text node that holds its value?

Thanks,
Rob