Using Junos Xml Management Protocol And Junos Xml Tag Elements; Xml And Junos Xml Management Protocol Conventions Overview - Juniper JUNOS OS 10.3 - XML MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL GUIDE 6-30-2010 Manual

CHAPTER 2
Using Junos XML Management Protocol
and Junos XML Tag Elements

XML and Junos XML Management Protocol Conventions Overview

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This chapter describes the syntactic and notational conventions used by the Junos XML
protocol server and client applications, including the mappings between statements and
commands in the Junos OS command-line interface (CLI) and the tag elements in the
Junos Extensible Markup Language (XML) application programming interface (API).
For more information about the syntax of CLI commands and configuration statements,
see the Junos CLI User Guide. For information about specific configuration statements,
see the Junos OS configuration guides. For information about specific operational mode
commands, see the Junos OS command references.
This chapter discusses the following topics:
XML and Junos XML Management Protocol Conventions Overview on page 9
Mapping Commands to Junos XML Tag Elements on page 14
Mapping Configuration Statements to Junos XML Tag Elements on page 15
Using the Same Configuration Tag Elements in Requests and Responses on page 21
A client application must comply with XML and Junos XML management protocol
conventions. Each request from the client application must be a well-formed XML
document; that is, it must obey the structural rules defined in the Junos XML protocol
and Junos XML document type definitions (DTDs) for the kind of information encoded
in the request. The client application must emit tag elements in the required order and
only in legal contexts. Compliant applications are easier to maintain in the event of
changes to the Junos OS or Junos XML management protocol.
Similarly, each response from the Junos XML protocol server constitutes a well-formed
XML document (the Junos XML protocol server obeys XML and Junos XML management
protocol conventions).
The following sections describe Junos XML management protocol conventions:
Request and Response Tag Elements on page 10
Child Tag Elements of a Request Tag Element on page 10
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