We can't time travel and as you mentioned option A has consistency within each 
encoding, so I'm also for option A. 

Regards,
Reshad.

On 2018-10-18, 6:30 AM, "netmod on behalf of Martin Bjorklund" 
<netmod-boun...@ietf.org on behalf of m...@tail-f.com> wrote:

    Hi,
    
    Going back to the most urgent issue, what is this WG's recommendation
    for the subscribed-notifications draft in NETCONF wrt/ their usage of
    yang:xpath1.0 in filters?
    
    To summarize:
    
    We already have
    
      o  instance-identifier in XML uses prefixes from the XML document
      o  instance-identifier in JSON uses module names as prefixes
      o  XPath in NETCONF filter uses prefixes from the XML document
      o  XPath in JSON query filter uses module names as prefixes
    
    
    Alternative A:
    --------------
    
    Use different encodings for "stream-xpath-filter" as well, depending
    on if it is XML or JSON.
    
    We would do in SN:
    
        o  If the node is encoded in XML, the set of namespace
           declarations are those in scope on the
           'stream-xpath-filter' leaf element.
    
        o  If the node is encoded in JSON, the set of namespace
           declarations is the set of prefix and namespace pairs
           for all supported YANG modules, where the prefix is
           the YANG module name and the namespace is as defined
           by the "namespace" statement in the YANG module.
    
    Pro: the format is consistent within each encoding.
    
    Con: unclear how to handle other encodings.
    Con: we keep using context-depending encodings.
    
    We could probably add that CBOR uses the same representation as JSON.
    
    Example in XML:
    
      <stream-xpath-filter
          xmlns:if="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-interfaces"
          xmlns:ip="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-ip">
        /if:interfaces/if:interface/ip:ipv4
      </stream-xpath-filter>
    
    Example in JSON:
    
      "stream-xpath-filter":
        "/ietf-interfaces:interfaces/ietf-interfaces:interface/ietf-ip:ipv4"
    
    
    
    Alternative B:
    --------------
    
    Use a non-context depending encoding, with the module name as prefix.
    
    We would do in SN:
    
        o  The set of namespace
           declarations is the set of prefix and namespace pairs
           for all supported YANG modules, where the prefix is
           the YANG module name and the namespace is as defined
           by the "namespace" statement in the YANG module.
    
    Pro: the format is independent from the protocol encoding
    
    Con: in XML, this leaf is treated differently from other XPath
         expressions, such as get-config filter and nacm rules.
    
    Example in XML:
    
      <stream-xpath-filter>
        /ietf-interfaces:interfaces/ietf-interfaces:interface/ietf-ip:ipv4
      </stream-xpath-filter>
    
    Example in JSON:
    
      "stream-xpath-filter":
        "/ietf-interfaces:interfaces/ietf-interfaces:interface/ietf-ip:ipv4"
    
    
    My proposal is A.  I think it is more important with consistency
    within each encoding than across encodings.
    
    (This said, I would like to have a context-independent encoding of all
    YANG types in the future.  But not now.)
    
    
    
    
    /martin
    
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