Re: [netmod] Y34: remove anyxml

[Martin Bjorklund <[e-mail]>]

Phil Shafer <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Martin Bjorklund writes:
> >Fortunately, you *can* store the string, and all prefixes in effect,
> >and in the get-config return:
> >
> >   <y xmlns:p0="http://example.com"
> >      xmlns:p1="http://example.com">
> >     ... stored string goes here ...
> >   </y>
> 
> If we were smart, we would have been more pedantic about the XML
> being stand-alone.

Yes.  But this goes back to the original NETCONF spec.  It would have
been nice if the different protoocl layers in NETCONF were constrained
to being stand-alone:

  <rpc ...>
    [stand-alone operation here]
  </rpc>

  <rpc ...>
    <edit-config ...>
      <config ...>
         [stand-alone content here]
      </config>
    </edit-config>
  </rpc>

Since we use anyxml to model things like edit-config content, we
couldn't put the self-contained restriction on anyxml.

> What's meant by this text (from XML Mapping rules in anyxml)?
> 
>    Note that any prefixes used in the encoding are local to each instance
>    encoding.  This means that the same XML may be encoded differently by
>    different implementations.

It means you cannot rely on the prefixes being the same after
roundtripping.  For example, you might set:

   <foo xmlns="urn:foo">42</foo>

and get back

   <x:foo xmlns:x="urn:foo">42</x:foo>


/martin