def _checkListItem(policy_element, policy_name, policy_key, xpath_object, policy_file_data, test_items=True):
    '''
    helper function to process an enabled/disabled/true/falseList set

    if test_items is True, it will determine if the policy is enabled or
    disabled returning True if all items are configured in the registry.pol file
    and false if they are not

    if test_items is False, the expected strings for the items will be returned
    as a list

    returns True if the enabled/disabledList is 100% configured in the
    registry.pol file, otherwise returns False
    '''
    xpath_string = ('.//*[local-name() = "decimal" or local-name() = "delete"'
                    ' or local-name() = "longDecimal" or local-name() = "string"]')
    value_item_child_xpath = etree.XPath(xpath_string)
    expected_strings = []
    for list_element in xpath_object(policy_element):
        configured_items = 0
        required_items = 0
        for item in list_element.getchildren():
            required_items = required_items + 1
            if 'key' in item.attrib:
                item_key = item.attrib['key']
            else:
                item_key = policy_key
            if 'valueName' in item.attrib:
                item_valuename = item.attrib['valueName']
            else:
                log.error('%s item with attributes %s in policy %s does not '
                          'have the required "valueName" attribute',
                          etree.QName(list_element).localname,
                          item.attrib, policy_element.attrib)
                break
            for value_item in value_item_child_xpath(item):
                search_string = _processValueItem(value_item,
                                                  item_key,
                                                  item_valuename,
                                                  policy_element,
                                                  item)
                if test_items:
                    if _regexSearchRegPolData(re.escape(search_string), policy_file_data):
                        configured_items = configured_items + 1
                        log.debug('found the search string in the pol file,'
                                  '%s of %s items for policy %s are '
                                  'configured in registry.pol',
                                  configured_items, required_items,
                                  policy_name)
                else:
                    expected_strings.append(search_string)
        if test_items:
            if required_items > 0 and required_items == configured_items:
                log.debug('%s all items are set', policy_name)
                return True
    if test_items:
        return False
    else:
        return expected_strings