About

libyang is a library implementing processing of the YANG schemas and data modeled by the YANG language. The library is implemented in C for GNU/Linux and provides C API.

Main Features

• Parsing (and validating) schemas in YANG format.
• Parsing (and validating) schemas in YIN format.
• Parsing, validating and printing instance data in XML format.
• Parsing, validating and printing instance data in JSON format (RFC 7951).
• Manipulation with the instance data.
• Support for default values in the instance data (RFC 6243).
• Support for YANG extensions and user types.
• Support for YANG Metadata (RFC 7952).

The current implementation covers YANG 1.0 (RFC 6020) as well as YANG 1.1 (RFC 7950).

Extra (side-effect) Features

• XML parser.
• Optimized string storage (dictionary).

License

Copyright (c) 2015-2017 CESNET, z.s.p.o.

(The BSD 3-Clause License)

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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3. Neither the name of the Company nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.