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7 YANG Tools is to develop necessary tooling and libraries to provide Java runtime
8 and support for [YANG modeling language][RFC6020], data structures modeled by YANG and their
9 serialization and deserialization as defined in IETF drafts and standards.
13 * parsing of [YANG sources][RFC6020] and semantic inference of relationship across YANG models as defined in [RFC6020]
14 * representation of YANG-modeled data in Java
15 * **DOM-like APIs** - DOM-like tree model, which uses conceptual meta-model
16 * **Java Bindings** - Concrete data model generated from YANG models
17 * serialization / deserialization of YANG-modeled data driven by YANG models
18 * XML - as defined in [RFC6020] and revised in [RFC7950]
19 * JSON - as defined in [draft-lhotka-netmod-yang-json-01] and standardized in [RFC7951]
20 * Integration of YANG model parsing into Maven build lifecycle and
21 support for third-party generators processing YANG models.
23 [RFC6020]:https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6020
24 [RFC7950]:https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7950
25 [RFC7951]:https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7951
26 [draft-lhotka-netmod-yang-json-01]:https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-lhotka-netmod-yang-json-01