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# YANG Tools

YANG Tools is to develop necessary tooling and libraries to provide Java runtime
and support for [YANG modeling language][RFC6020], data structures modeled by YANG and their
serialization and deserialization as defined in IETF drafts and standards.

## Current Features

* parsing of [YANG sources][RFC6020] and semantic inference of relationship across YANG models as defined in [RFC6020]
* representation of YANG-modeled data in Java
  * **DOM-like APIs** - DOM-like tree model, which uses conceptual meta-model
  * **Java Bindings** - Concrete data model generated from YANG models
* serialization / deserialization of YANG-modeled data driven by YANG models
  * XML - as defined in [RFC6020] and revised in [RFC7950]
  * JSON - as defined in [draft-lhotka-netmod-yang-json-01] and standardized in [RFC7951]
* Integration of YANG model parsing into Maven build lifecycle and
  support for third-party generators processing  YANG models.

[RFC6020]:https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6020
[RFC7950]:https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7950
[RFC7951]:https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7951
[draft-lhotka-netmod-yang-json-01]:https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-lhotka-netmod-yang-json-01