Re: [NGO] YANG and identifiers

Hi,

[A general comment: yang specific questions should be sent to
yang@ietf.org.]

Johan Rydberg <johan.rydberg@edgeware.tv> wrote:
> While reading the YANG I-D one thing struck me as odd:
> 
> Some statements that refer to identifiers take a string as argument, and
> not an identifier!  Why is this?  Example of such statements are 'key',
> 'unique' and 'prefix'.

This is because a YANG statement is defined as:

  statement = keyword [argument] (";" / "{" *statement "}")

The argument is always a string.  A string may or may not be
quoted, and the string can be concatenated etc.

In the ABNF grammar, you'll see e.g.

  prefix-stmt            = prefix-keyword sep prefix-str optsep stmtend

  prefix-str             = < a string which matches the rule
                             prefix >

  prefix                 = identifier

Which means that after tokenization (string concatenation etc), the
prefix argument must match the 'identifier' rule.

/martin

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