Re: [netmod] yang-types-04 bug
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Re: [netmod] yang-types-04 bug



Ladislav Lhotka píše v Po 26. 10. 2009 v 13:41 +0100:
> Juergen Schoenwaelder píše v Po 26. 10. 2009 v 00:10 +0100:
> > On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 08:21:09PM +0100, Andy Bierman wrote:
> >  
> > > I was trying to compile this module with the version of
> > > yangdump that is about to be released, and if complained
> > > because the 'date-and-time' description-stmt is a
> > > single-quoted string, and it contains 2 single quotes (device's).
> > > 
> > > YANG has no way to escape those quotes?  (I think not.)
> > 
> > Sorry for not catching this before posting the ID. I will fix this
> > problem in the next revision. I conclude for myself that using single
> > quote strings (that do not allow escape sequences) for textual
> > arguments is not a good YANG usage pattern.
> 
> Hmm, where does the draft say that an unescaped apostrophe
> (single-quote) is illegal in a double-quoted string? It only says:
> 
>    A single quote character cannot occur in a single
>    quoted string, even when preceded by a backslash.
> 
> IMO "'" represents a legal YANG string consisting of one single-quote
> character.

Oops, I misunderstood the problem, sorry for the confusion. Perhaps the
string "'" could be listed among the special strings in 6.1.3.1.

Lada

> 
> Lada
> 
> > 
> > /ks
> > 
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