You can select the type of signature to be used for documents from a signature settings dialog. To open this dialog, select the Sign... action from the Source submenu when invoking the contextual menu in Text mode or from the Tools menu.
Figure: Signature settings dialog
The following options are available:
- Input - Specifies the location of the input URL.
- Transformation Options:
- None - If selected, no canonicalization algorithm is used.
- Exclusive - If selected, the exclusive (uncommented) canonicalization method is used.
- Exclusive with comments - If selected, the exclusive with comments canonicalization method is used.
- Inclusive - If selected, the inclusive (uncommented) canonicalization method is used.
- Inclusive with comments - If selected, the inclusive with comments canonicalization method is used.
- XPath - The XPath expression provides the fragments of the XML document to be signed.
- ID - Provides ID of the XML element to be signed.
- Envelope - If selected, the enveloped signature is used.
- Detached - If selected, the detached signature is used.
- Append KeyInfo - If this option is checked, the ds:KeyInfo element will be added in the signed document.
- Signature algorithm - The algorithm used for signing the document. The following options are available: RSA with SHA1, RSA with SHA256, RSA with SHA384, and RSA with SHA512.
- Output - Specifies the path of the output file where the signed XML document will be saved.
- Open in editor - If checked, the output file will be opened in the editor.
Note: If Oxygen XML Editor could not find a valid certificate, a link is provided at the
top of the dialog that opens the XML Signing
Certificates preferences page where you can configure a valid certificate.
