Leaf Node

A leaf node contains simple data such as an integer or a character string. It has exactly one value of a particular type and no child nodes.

Take a leaf node named host-name as an example. The name is a character string. YANG example:

leaf host-name {
 type string;
 description "Hostname for this system";
}

NETCONF XML example:

<host-name>my.example.com</host-name>