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Subject: RE: [saml-dev] empty assertions
> In response to an attribute query, if no attributes for the principal > are available, it seems the IdP should return an empty response. Well, if you consider a Status message empty... > In SAML V2.0, does it make sense to return an empty assertion instead? > (This is legal in SAML V2.0, right?) That's not what the protocol is trying to permit, though. > In general, what are the uses of an empty assertion? Nothing I can think of, and I would tend to think it wasn't really meant to be valid. XSD doesn't have co-constraints, so you can't say "Subject is required unless there are no statements..." or that kind of thing. -- Scott
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