Re: subelements

[Martin Bjorklund <mbj@tail-f.com>]

Phil Shafer <phil@juniper.net> wrote:
> Andy Bierman writes:
> >no -- there is no mention in the RFC of this extensibility feature
> >that does not officially exist.  I remember (way back when ;-)
> >that Phil convinced us that
> >  <source><running/></source>
> >was better than
> >  <source>running</source>
> >It had something to do with making it easier to define an XSD
> >that was a subset of the standard configurations.
> 
> IIRC, my argument was exactly as above, that using elements
> gives us extensibility.  It's unfortunate that the xsd doesn't
> reflect this, but my view is that capabilities can extend the
> base protocol so this isn't really a problem.

But can you really write a capability which modifies the schema in
rfc4741?


/martin

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