[xmlsec] Signing SOAP envelopes

[Aleksey Sanin]

> My last and hopefully final problem is how to sign a SOAP envelope? As 
> far as I can determine the data to be signed is always the value of the 
> data-node (please correct me if I'm wrong) but this will not work with a 
> SOAP envelope!
You can sign any part or parts of a given XML document. Check XPath
and/or XPath2 transforms description in the spec.

>  
> I would also like to know if it is possible to sign multible parts of an 
> XML independant of each other. In my case I need to sign _parts_ of the 
> SOAP body (the signature should stay in the body) and also sign the 
> whole SOAP body (the signature should go in the SOAP header) after parts 
> of the body has been signed.
You have to create 2 dsig:Signatures for this.

Aleksey