xpath: adds support for prefixes in list keys #399
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This diff adds support for prefixes in list keys as well as some unit tests.
Context
Where an identifier is something like
interfaces, an identifier with a prefix might beopenconfig-interfaces:interface. The ABNF in the YANG RFCs refers to these asnode-identifierrules.The current xpath implementation does not allow prefixed identifiers in list keys, however per RFC 6020 and RFC 7950 these are valid.
We can look to openconfig for a real world example.
For completeness I've lifted some relevant grammar snippets from the YANG RFCs: