Thanks for the feedback Maura! It was intended to allow content authors to 
check the values of settings.  I will look into it a bit more though since it 
has been a couple of years since I last looked at this test :).  In doing so, I 
will try to generate some sample content.  As a side note, it looks like it is 
implemented in openscap.

Thanks,

Danny

>-----Original Message-----
>From: [email protected] [mailto:scap-
>[email protected]] On Behalf Of Shawn Wells
>Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 1:21 PM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rewrote various GConf checks to standardize on
>xmlfilecontent tests and ensured they were actually checking the correct
>location (gconf.xml.mandatory, not gconf.xml.defaults).
>
>On 12/16/13, 12:51 PM, Maura Dailey wrote:
>> On 12/16/2013 12:46 PM, Haynes, Dan wrote:
>>> For the GConf checks, it looks like the content first used the
>>> ind-def:textfilecontent54_test and was just updated to use the
>>> ind-def:xmlfilecontent_test which seems like a good improvement to me.
>>>
>>> Just curious, has anyone considered using the unix-def:gconf_test
>>>
>(http://oval.mitre.org/language/version5.10.1/ovaldefinition/documentation/
>unix-definitions-schema.html#gconf_test)?
>>> If so, are there any problems with the gconf_test that make using the
>>> ind-def:xmlfilecontent_test more desirable?  This seems to be a good
>>> opportunity for me to get some feedback on the usability of the
>>> unix-def:gconf_test from an OVAL content authoring perspective :).
>>
>> I saw the test, but it doesn't seem clear how to specify where to
>> check for settings or if it's checking settings for a particular user.
>> xmlfilecontent_test is much more precise, because it allows you to
>> specify the exact file to check.
>Love the idea though. Dan, is there sample code (or would you be willing
>to generate some)?
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