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Subject: RE: [xacml] IIC012: syntax-error or processing-error?



I'm not saying that you shouldn't return an indeterminate with a status
code of syntax error. Go ahead!

I'm just not for conforming to that result.

-Polar

On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Daniel Engovatov wrote:

>
> I would think it is the syntax-error.  There is nothing wrong about
> reporting an incorrectly formed policy and nothing sacred about type
> incorrectness.  This is what status codes are for.
>
> Does your language interpreter or compiler just die in silence if there is a
> typo in the code?
>
>
> D;
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Polar Humenn
> To: Anne Anderson
> Cc: XACML TC
> Sent: 12/4/02 6:06 AM
> Subject: Re: [xacml] IIC012: syntax-error or processing-error?
>
>
> 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
> > --
> > Anne H. Anderson             Email: Anne.Anderson@Sun.COM
> > Sun Microsystems Laboratories
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