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Summary

  • Signing parses the document once per operation for templates that need no reference to read generated content: KeyInfo, digests and the generated C14N 1.1 transform all join one final splice.
  • Parsing, canonicalization and base64 handling drop repeated validation, hashing and per-element allocation.

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  • Signing: deferred KeyInfo, digest values and generated canonicalization in one final mutation; budgets are checked once before work starts. A generation of its own remains only where a Reference reads the content, the document has a DTD, the writer adds an ID or merges into an element with its own namespace scope, or analysis needs placeholder text.
  • Parser: the xmloxide build records node positions while parsing instead of scanning again, takes slices of validated text, resolves up to eight prefixes without hashing, and refuses XML versions other than 1.0.
  • Limit pass: skips attribute splitting for tags that declare no namespace in documents without attribute defaults, and judges whitespace only outside the document element.
  • C14N: namespace maps are copied only when they change, and the attribute buffer is reused across start tags.
  • Base64 payloads are scanned by alphabet runs.

Testing

Tests, lints, formatting, the xmlsec1 oracle and PKCS#11 pass on macOS; CI covers Linux, Windows and the no-std builds. Generated and explicit canonicalization are compared byte for byte, and parse work is asserted through public signing paths.

Closes #352
Closes #310
Closes #348
Closes #349

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- Signing commits the digests, KeyInfo and SignatureValue together, so
  a template whose references do not read KeyInfo needs no intermediate
  generation. The owned entry points keep the starting cell instead of
  parsing a staged copy, and restore it on failure.
- Every ceiling of the final generation is decided once, before the
  private key is used.
- xmloxide records node source ranges itself, so a document without a
  DOCTYPE skips the separate lexical scan. The parser refuses XML
  versions other than 1.0, which only that scan did before; a
  differential test holds the positions and the refusals together.

Part of #352
Part of #347
Validation walks a run of alphabet bytes through one table instead of
branching per byte, and normalization copies the text between whitespace
instead of pushing each character. Refusals and their precedence are
unchanged.
- An element that declares nothing shares its parent's rendered map, so
  most elements no longer copy it.
- Projection keeps one frame per open level instead of one per child, so
  its stack grows with depth rather than with an element's width.
Each start tag allocated its own attribute list. One start tag finishes
before the next begins, so a single buffer on the canonical output
serves the whole walk and output stays byte-identical in every mode.

Closes #349
- The parser takes slices of its validated text instead of validating
  each name, attribute value and text run again.
- Prefix lookups compare a short list without hashing and move to the
  keyed table past eight bindings, so many prefixes stay constant-time.
- The limit pass skips splitting attributes of a tag that declares no
  namespace in a document without attribute defaults, and judges text
  as whitespace only outside the document element.

Closes #348
- A Reference without a final canonicalization no longer costs a commit
  and parse: the generated C14N 1.1 transform joins the base64 values
  and KeyInfo in the final splice, and its canonical text joins the
  canonical SignedInfo, so the output bytes stay the same.
- It stays a generation of its own when a Reference reads the edited
  element, a DTD could default its attributes, or analysis needs
  placeholder text; that last case is now known before that parse.
- Splices now carry several ranges, in document order.

Part of #352
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Minor Change the operand order so the projected length cannot underflow.
Major Stop speculative analysis before the placeholder parse.

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Review comments at @src/xmldsig/sign.rs:
- Around line 2348-2352: Reorder the length arithmetic in the key_info splice
handling so spliced.xml.len() is added to projected_document_len before
subtracting document.as_xml().len(), preventing intermediate underflow when the
replacement shortens the document.
- Around line 2235-2266: Update SigningReferenceRequest and
analyze_signing_references to identify pending KeyInfo content and reject
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  • src/c14n/serialize.rs
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  • src/parser_xmloxide/parser/input.rs
  • src/parser_xmloxide/parser/mod.rs
  • src/parser_xmloxide/parser/xml.rs
  • src/xml/dom/mod.rs
  • src/xml/dom/preflight.rs
  • src/xml/dom/preflight/recorder_tests.rs
  • src/xml/dom/tree.rs
  • src/xml/dom/xmloxide.rs
  • src/xmldsig/mutation.rs
  • src/xmldsig/sign.rs
  • src/xmldsig/sign/deferred_commit_tests.rs
  • src/xmldsig/sign/error_conversion_tests.rs
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The changes update xmloxide parsing, add parser-recorded source positions for DOM projection, and revise XML signature mutation planning. Canonicalization now reuses namespace and attribute state, and base64 payload scanning processes contiguous alphabet runs.

Changes: XML parser and source positions

Layer / File(s) Summary
Storage-aware scanning and borrowed values
scripts/patches/xmloxide-0.5.0.patch
Parser scans and lexical values use borrowed source slices where possible. Work, allocation, and diagnostic failures propagate as resource errors.
Entity expansion and attribute values
scripts/patches/xmloxide-0.5.0.patch
Entity expansion uses explicit frames and storage-backed output. Attribute processing applies line-ending and whitespace normalization in separate steps.
Namespace scope and prefix lookup
scripts/patches/xmloxide-0.5.0.patch, src/parser_xmloxide/parser/input.rs
Namespace scopes use undo records. Prefixes use a short list before bindings spill into a name map.
DTD and iterative tree construction
scripts/patches/xmloxide-0.5.0.patch
DTD and tree data use selected storage. Element parsing uses an explicit stack, and entity-fragment nodes are grafted into the document.
Parser source-position recording
scripts/patches/xmloxide-0.5.0.patch, src/parser_xmloxide/parser/*
The parser can return source ranges for elements and lexical nodes with the parsed document.
DOM preflight and position projection
src/xml/dom/*
Eligible xmloxide parses skip lexical preflight and pass parser-recorded ranges to projection. Tests compare recorder output with scanner output.

Signing mutation and canonicalization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Canonical namespace rendering and attribute reuse
src/c14n/*
Canonicalization copies namespace maps only when they change and reuses the start-tag attribute buffer.
Splice metadata and atomic document commits
src/document.rs, src/xmldsig/mutation.rs, src/xmldsig/sign.rs
Splice metadata tracks replaced spans and added-node and depth bounds. Atomic signing commits retain the prior document state for rollback.
Reference analysis and deferred signing edits
src/xmldsig/sign.rs, src/xmldsig/sign/*
Signing analyzes generated transforms and reference dependencies to choose deferred splices or intermediate mutations.
Final output and bounded payload processing
src/xmldsig/sign.rs, src/xmldsig/whitespace.rs
Final output applies deferred edits through projected serialization when needed. Base64 scanning processes alphabet runs and retains its validation checks.

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Change: Refactor · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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sequenceDiagram
  participant SignContext
  participant ReferenceAnalysis
  participant Document
  participant PrivateKey
  SignContext->>ReferenceAnalysis: analyze generated transforms and references
  ReferenceAnalysis->>SignContext: return dependency plan
  SignContext->>Document: validate projected edits and commit mutations
  SignContext->>PrivateKey: sign admitted output
  PrivateKey->>SignContext: return signature value
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Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review 677e4

Signing with a KeyInfo writer and a content-reading transform now repeats parsing and transform work, which can hit work limits that previously passed. A narrow debug-build panic can also occur when replacing stale signature content with shorter values. Resolve the speculative analysis before merging; the arithmetic fix is a small reorder.

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The PR implements the active coding objectives in #352, #310, #348, and #349. The signing plan defers KeyInfo, digest values, and generated C14N 1.1 output when dependency analysis permits it, and keeps intermediate generations when a reference reads the affected content. Final mutations project limits and use atomic rollback. Tests cover public signing paths, writer and non-writer paths, generated versus explicit canonicalization, parse work, and position recording. The parser uses inline namespace bindings with scoped undo and keyed fallback. Canonicalization reuses one attribute buffer for native and accounted scratch. The reported output, oracle, policy, and work-accounting tests support the required compatibility behavior.

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The changed parser, storage, preflight, signing, canonicalization, and Base64 code supports the linked performance, limit, atomicity, and accounting objectives. The xmloxide adaptation supplies recorded positions, generic native/accounted storage, and the namespace resolver needed by #348 and #352. No demonstrated unrelated product change appears in the reviewed scope.

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- Around line 2348-2352: Reorder the length arithmetic in the key_info splice
handling so spliced.xml.len() is added to projected_document_len before
subtracting document.as_xml().len(), preventing intermediate underflow when the
replacement shortens the document.
- Around line 2235-2266: Update SigningReferenceRequest and
analyze_signing_references to identify pending KeyInfo content and reject
speculative placeholder analysis before projection or parsing, using the
existing generated-transform guard. Set the indicator for the deferred request
and clear it in regular request constructors; preserve the current-tree fast
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  • src/c14n/serialize.rs
  • src/document.rs
  • src/parser_xmloxide/parser/input.rs
  • src/parser_xmloxide/parser/mod.rs
  • src/parser_xmloxide/parser/xml.rs
  • src/xml/dom/mod.rs
  • src/xml/dom/preflight.rs
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  • src/xml/dom/tree.rs
  • src/xml/dom/xmloxide.rs
  • src/xmldsig/mutation.rs
  • src/xmldsig/sign.rs
  • src/xmldsig/sign/deferred_commit_tests.rs
  • src/xmldsig/sign/error_conversion_tests.rs
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Comment thread src/xmldsig/sign.rs Resolved
Comment thread src/xmldsig/sign.rs Resolved
- Projected length adds the splice before subtracting: stale
  SignatureValue content could underflow it.
- Projected depth counts elements alone, as the parser's metrics do, so
  documents at the limit are no longer refused.
- A writer that adds an ID, merges into a child with its own namespace
  scope, or runs in a document with a DTD commits KeyInfo first, so
  ambiguous references and over-limit scopes are still refused.
- A speculative analysis stops before the placeholder parse when
  KeyInfo is pending too, not only for a generated transform.

Regression tests for each case are in generated_c14n_tests.

Part of #352
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