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> On Apr 17, 2020, at 4:16 AM, Juergen Schoenwaelder
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 01:13:54AM +0000, Kent Watsen wrote:
>>
>>>>>> PS: the "token” type add discussion from before never completed (again,
>>>>>> modeled after xsd:token)
>>>>
>>>> What about this?
>>>>
>>>
>>> What would this type be good for? Any models already using something
>>> like this?
>>
>>
>> Not in a standard model, that I’m aware of but, back at Juniper, I had a
>> typedef for this that I used as a basis for so many things, but mostly
>> things intended to be identifiers of sorts, whereby having whitespace didn’t
>> make sense.
>>
>
> This type does not eliminate whitespace, it only reduces multiple
> consecutive whitespaces to one.
Leading/trailing whitespace :sigh: Too pedantic much?
Please, think about the gazillion models where there is this:
leaf name {
type string;
description ”An arbitrary name for the…”;
}
It’s obvious the name shouldn’t contain paragraphs of text or, in general,
non-printable characters of any sort, or preceding/trailing space characters.
Given this preponderance of this use case and the history of module-writers not
defining the necessary pattern statements, a “token” type would be welcomed.
For instance:
leaf name {
type token;
description ”An arbitrary name for the…”;
}
Kent // contributor
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