Hi Rob, thank you for reading the draft.
> On 17 Mar 2017, at 13:30, Robert Wilton <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Lada, > > I've had a quick scan of your YANG markup extension draft and I have a few > comments: > > Allowing description, and similar descriptive statements, to use something > other than text seems like it could be useful in some cases. > > I'm not sure that allowing the statements to use any text-like media type is > a good idea, this could increase the burden on tool makers if each module > author chooses their own preferred format. > > Instead, I think that it might be better to restrict it to a very small set > of media types, that could be extended in future. I would think that > initially just allowing plain text and one particular flavour of markdown > would be a reasonable starting point. I agree although I am not sure that we can easily find an agreement on the particular flavour. So maybe we can leave it open and let the "market" decide. > > I think that the only formats that should be allowed are those that are still > readily readable as plain text, so that tools that don't want to parse the > formatted text can still sensibly display the descriptive statements. I.e. I > don't think that it would be helpful to allow things like text/xml since it > isn't easy to read. Sure, and the draft says: It is RECOMMENDED to use only media types representing "lightweight" markup that is easy to read even in the unprocessed source form, such as "text/markdown". > > Allowing this extension on particular descriptive statements may also be > helpful. It seems plausible that the vast majority of these statements in a > module might just be written in plain text with just a few of them using more > advanced formatting like markdown. Yes, I was thinking about this. On the other hand, plain text is typically compatible with any markup format, so this would probably be useful only if somebody wanted to use multiple different markup formats in the same module, which sounds crazy. But we can discuss it. > > Finally, I have a concern that if more structured formatting in the comments > is used then would that encourage model writers to produce more verbose > comments, and if so that might possibly reduce the readability of the > modules. Although, I guess ultimately one has to trust the model writers to > do the right thing. Well, this draft doesn't permit anything above what module writers can do already now - the descriptions etc. have to be valid YANG strings as before. The only new thing is a piece of metadata that may be helpful for some tools but that can also be safely ignored. Thanks, Lada > > Thanks, > Rob > -- Ladislav Lhotka, CZ.NIC Labs PGP Key ID: 0xB8F92B08A9F76C67 _______________________________________________ netmod mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod
