Re: [xacml] IIC012: syntax-error or processing-error?

[Polar Humenn <polar@syr.edu>]

This is the same problem as D024. This policy is not well formed. It is
type incorrect. There should be no status code, because it should not even
be hinted at that it should be evaluated.

Cheers,
-Polar

On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Anne Anderson wrote:

> Conformance Test IIC012 is intended to test for the error case in
> which a Condition FunctionId uses a function that does not return
> a Boolean result.  The <Condition is:
>
>         <Condition FunctionId="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:function:integer-subtract">
>             <Apply FunctionId="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:function:integer-one-and-only">
>                 <SubjectAttributeDesignator
>                       AttributeId="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:conformance-test:age"
>                       DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#integer"/>
>             </Apply>
>             <Apply FunctionId="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:function:integer-one-and-only">
>                 <EnvironmentAttributeDesignator
>                       AttributeId="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:conformance-test:bart-simpson-age"
>                       DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#integer"/>
>             </Apply>
>         </Condition>
>
> Question: should the StatusCode Value from evaluating this Policy
> be "urn:...:status:syntax-error" (since it is a type error), or
> "urn:...:status:processing-error"?
>
> I'm leaning toward syntax-error.  What do others think?
>
> Anne
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