On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 02:06:57PM -0400, Dale R. Worley wrote: > A difficulty I have with the current wording is that it doesn't point > out the crucial fact about leafref that the XPath expression can only > select elements that are instantiations of one particular data node. I > don't know XPath, but it seems that that is not a general property of > XPath expressions, you seem to be able to write XPath expressions that > select heterogenous groups of elements. So it's worth pointing out that > the allowed XPath expressions can't do that, and that is because of the > restriction that the expression must match path-arg. > > Perhaps my problem is that XPath is almost always used in this style, > and so the limitations in leafref aren't anything unusual.
Does section 9.9.2, which describes the path statement, not describe this is sufficient detail? Note also that 9.9.2 is a subsection of 9.9, which describes the leafref type. /js -- Juergen Schoenwaelder Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH Phone: +49 421 200 3587 Campus Ring 1 | 28759 Bremen | Germany Fax: +49 421 200 3103 <http://www.jacobs-university.de/> _______________________________________________ netmod mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod
