Re: [netmod] XPath node type tests

Hi Rob,

Robert Wilton <rwilton@cisco.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> XPATH 1.0 defines the following three node-type tests:
>
> 1) comment()
> 2) processing-instruction(<opt arg>)
> 3) text()

For completeness, node() is the fourth one.

>
> 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.

Yes. FWIW, Yangson library raises NotSupported exception upon
encountering these.

>
> 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?

I believe this is how it should be interpreted. According to XPath 1.0
spec, comparisons like

    xyz = 'foo'

use string-value of xyz node, which is defined as the concatenation of
the string-values of all text node descendants of xyz.

Lada

>
> Thanks,
> Rob
>
>
>
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