Cisco Technology, Inc.

Milan Paliath Ramachandran

Krishna Sundaresan

Ramesh Kumar Veerapaneni

Vijaya Chandra Arroju

Anand Brahmanand Agarwal

A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes transmitting a message from a network element to a network controller, the message identifying a data store of the network controller and a data model and a transformation document stored in the identified data store; downloading the identified data model and identified transformation document to the network element; applying the downloaded transformation document to the downloaded data model to generate a platform interface file; and programming the platform interface file at the network element. In certain embodiments, the data model is a YANG data model; in other embodiments, the data model is a YIN representation of a YANG data model. The transformation document may comprise eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation ('XSLT') document.

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Bengaluru, India

Milan Paliath Ramachandran