Extract text from module files (YANG)
To convert YANG modules to another format, you need pyang or other Developer software.
To convert other file formats to the "Data Modeling Language" file type, you need software like pyang or a similar tool.
The .YANG file is a text-based data modeling language used to define configuration data, state data, and remote procedure calls for network protocols like NETCONF and RESTCONF. Developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force, network engineers use these files to standardize how routers, switches, and network devices communicate.
You can open and edit a .YANG file using any standard code editor, such as Visual Studio Code or Notepad++. However, specialized command-line tools like pyang are required to properly validate the syntax and compile the models.
A major disadvantage of the .YANG format is its rigid, highly specialized syntax. It is unreadable for non-engineers and requires complex dependency management when modules reference one another. Standard document converters fail to process it because it is not a standard text file, but a strict schema definition. Users frequently need to convert .YANG files to .YIN (an XML equivalent) or JSON to make the models readable by automated deployment pipelines, web applications, or non-specialized parsers.
The best conversion targets are XML (YIN format) and JSON. These formats retain the exact hierarchical data structure but replace the custom YANG syntax with universally understood data tags. Converting to plain TXT is also useful for quick sharing without syntax formatting.
Because .YANG is a strict, niche network modeling language, generic online converters will simply fail or break the data tree.
Convert.Guru analyzes your YANG file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted JSON, XML and YAML files.
If you want to convert YANG file to JSON, XML, YAML, CSV, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use pyang or similar software from the "Network Configuration Data Modeling" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to YANG, try pyang or another comparable tool in the "Network Configuration Data Modeling" category.
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