Re: [YANG] keyref

Andy Bierman writes:
>Phil Shafer wrote:
>> Andy Bierman writes:
>>> IMO, leafref as a documentation clause does the same thing
>>> but way simpler.  The DM reader should not have to be an expert
>>> in Xpath, and need to hunt down the relevant documentation,
>>> just to find out a leaf's data type.
>> 
>> Are you saying you prefer this relationship to be defined in English
>> words instead of a formal language?  The "description" statement
>> for the leaf can provide the words, but we hope to provide something
>> that a generic manager implementation can use to process module
>> contents.
>
>I already made a proposal -- instead of a builtin type called keyref
>there would be an optional clause for a leaf of leaf-list called
>leafref that has the path-stmt from the keyref as its argument.

Your proposal called this a "documentation clause", which implies
something targeted to humans and not usable by software.  This
would be bad, but I would live with a distinct statement for the
ref target that is a formal target.

Thanks,
 Phil

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