A target of leafref to be referenced must be enabled when the require-instance property of the leafref is 'false'?

[hansammy-suh]

I've got this error and YANG cannot be compiled normally.

cannot load module: Not found node "A" in path.: Schema path: /path/.../A/.../target-leaf: Target of leafref "leaf" cannot be referenced because it is disabled.: Schema path: /path/.../A/.../target-leaf

In .yang file, the abstraction of the leaf is below
"""
leaf target-leaf {
require-instance false;
path "/path/.../A/.../target-leaf"
}

According to the spec RFC7950, a target of leafref to be referenced must be enabled when the require-instance property of the leafref is 'false'?

[michalvasko]

Even better, section 9.9 last paragraph:

If the leaf that the leafref refers to is conditional based on one or
more features (see Section 7.20.2), then the leaf with the leafref
type MUST also be conditional based on at least the same set of
features.

[hansammy-suh]

Thank you for your quick reply.

I got your point.

So when using a leafref statement, the YANG author should carefully consider the if-feature conditions of the target leaf to reference, right?