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Re: [netmod] [Tools-discuss] reflow of YANG descriptions, and general YANG format annoyances

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Wed, 11 November 2020 20:02 UTC

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Subject: Re: [netmod] [Tools-discuss] reflow of YANG descriptions, and general YANG format annoyances
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On 2020-11-11, at 19:54, Kent Watsen <kent@watsen.net> wrote:
> 
> I don’t understand the "extraction code should not be needed any more” comment, but know that Shepherds and, to a lesser extent, Copy Editors, rely on being able to extract the YANG modules and/or instance examples from the `xml2rfc` XML files.

Once you have the XML for the RFC:
See https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8152#page-7
for the right way to do this.

Grüße, Carsten

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