Re: a subtree filtering question

[Andy Bierman <ietf@andybierman.com>]

Li Yan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don’t understand the following two sentences in rfc4741.
>
> 6.2.5.
>
>    o  Filtering of mixed content is not supported.

Mixed content is text that can have embedded markup language in it.
HTML uses a lot of mixed content.  (like <p> within a <p> within a </p> </p>)
It is not mandatory to support this in NETCONF.


>    o  Filtering of list content is not supported.

A list is a whitespace-separated list of string values that
conform to a specific simple type

<element name="primes">
  <simpleType>
    <list itemType="xsd:int" />
  </simpleType>
</element>

<primes>1 3    5 7</primes>


  <get>
    <filter type="subtree">
      <primes>1 3 5 7</primes>
    </filter>
  </get>

If <primes> was a simple string, then this filter will not match
because the whitespace is different.  As a list, it should match,
but the agent has to ignore or normalize whitespace instead of
simply comparing the value.  IMO, list should be supported, but
I guess it is not mandatory.



> Who can show me two examples to explain what are ‘mixed content’ and 
> ‘list content’ respectively?
>
> Thanks
>
>  
>
> Yan

Andy

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