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Summary

  • compile deterministic operation graphs that gate actual XMLDSig and XMLEnc parsing, resolution, canonicalization, cryptography, evidence, and mutation work
  • keep policy, cumulative budgets, resolver and transform-cache state, authenticated node identities, document generation, and typed decisions in one operation context
  • re-observe document and external-resource identities before execution, memoize immutable external fingerprints per operation, isolate transform-cache epochs, and advance expected generations only through controlled mutations
  • discover nested Manifest dependencies only after a valid structure-preserving digest authenticates their target
  • preserve fail-fast reference semantics without recording unprocessed digest nodes, and report XMLEnc graph failures separately from malformed encrypted structure

Validation

  • cargo nextest run --all-features --no-fail-fast: 1633 passed
  • thin xmloxide matrix: 1667 passed
  • thin roxmltree matrix: 1665 passed
  • differential matrix: 1676 passed
  • fat-runtime matrix: 1675 passed
  • cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets across xmloxide, roxmltree, differential, and fat-runtime feature sets with -D warnings
  • cargo test --doc --workspace --all-features: 6 passed
  • cargo +1.92.0 check --workspace --all-features
  • RUSTFLAGS=-Dwarnings cargo +nightly fuzz run xmldsig_verify -- -runs=256 -max_len=65536

Closes #133

- Add deterministic operation plans across XMLDSig and XMLEnc
- Share policy, budgets, identities, caches, and decision state
- Gate authenticated Manifest traversal and document mutation

Closes #133
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  • docs/xmlenc.md
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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved XML signature verification and signing reliability through deterministic dependency handling.
    • Prevented unauthenticated manifest content from being processed prematurely.
    • Added safeguards against circular dependencies and stale document updates.
    • Improved XML encryption and decryption validation, including safer handling of failed key candidates and document replacements.
    • Ensured resource limits and operation state remain consistent across complex security operations.
  • Documentation

    • Documented compiled operations and updated XML Signature and XML Encryption behavior.

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This change adds a shared operation kernel for XMLDSig and XMLEnc. Signing, verification, encryption, and decryption now compile staged dependency plans and share policy, budgets, identity state, authentication state, and mutation tracking.

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Compiled XML security operations

Layer / File(s) Summary
Operation kernel and shared state
src/operation.rs, src/lib.rs
Adds staged operation nodes, deterministic topological compilation, cycle checks, document generation validation, execution tracking, authentication state, decision evidence, and unit tests.
XMLDSig signing operation plans
src/xmldsig/sign.rs
Signing compiles reference, transform, digest, cryptographic, evidence, and mutation nodes through one operation context.
XMLDSig verification and manifests
src/xmldsig/verify.rs
Verification uses shared operation budgets and graph recording. Manifest discovery is compiled and runs only after successful signature authentication.
XMLDSig transform and resource state
src/xmldsig/transforms.rs, src/xmldsig/uri.rs
Transform cache state persists within a budget and resets between chains. External resource identities use deterministic fingerprints.
XMLEnc encryption operation plans
src/xmlenc/encrypt.rs, src/xmlenc/parse.rs, src/xmlenc/types.rs
Encryption compiles key, cryptographic, evidence, and optional mutation nodes. Entry points use shared parse budgets and plan errors map to encryption errors.
XMLEnc decryption operation plans
src/xmlenc/decrypt.rs
Decryption shares parse and key-candidate budgets across parsing, retries, provider validation, evidence, and optional mutation.
Prepared document mutation
src/document.rs
Document replacements can be prepared first and committed only after identity and generation validation.
Operation-plan documentation
README.md, docs/xmldsig.md, docs/xmlenc.md
Documentation describes compiled plans, shared operation state, authenticated Manifest phases, resource checks, budgets, and generation-gated mutation.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 37763

The refactor still has a build-readiness failure in the fuzz-smoke configuration and can record unprocessed signature references as verified after an earlier reference fails. These issues can block validation or misrepresent verification state, so merge should wait for fixes or explicit acceptance.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant XMLSecurityEntryPoint
  participant OperationExecutionContext
  participant CompiledOperationPlan
  participant CryptoProvider
  participant DocumentMutation
  XMLSecurityEntryPoint->>OperationExecutionContext: create context with policy, budgets, and document binding
  OperationExecutionContext->>CompiledOperationPlan: compile staged dependency graph
  CompiledOperationPlan->>OperationExecutionContext: execute validated dependencies
  OperationExecutionContext->>CryptoProvider: dispatch signing, verification, encryption, or decryption
  CryptoProvider->>OperationExecutionContext: return provider output for validation
  OperationExecutionContext->>DocumentMutation: execute mutation after successful validation
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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 30.60% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 134 functions across 11 files. (2 skipped… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Check name Status Explanation
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The implementation addresses issue [#133] by adding a shared operation kernel, deterministic plans, dependency and cycle validation, cumulative execution state, identity and generation checks, control…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes remain within issue [#133]. The source changes, documentation, tests, budget handling, identity checks, and mutation controls all support the compiled operation-plan objectives.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: compiling authenticated operations. It is concise and directly related to the operation-graph refactor.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the operation graphs, shared execution context, authentication flow, mutation controls, validation, and linked issue. It is fully related to the changeset.
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Explanation

The implementation addresses issue [#133] by adding a shared operation kernel, deterministic plans, dependency and cycle validation, cumulative execution state, identity and generation checks, controlled mutations, documentation, and tests across XMLDSig and XMLEnc.

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Docstring coverage is 30.60% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 134 functions across 11 files. (2 skipped: 2 unsupported.)

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Inline comments:
In `@src/operation.rs`:
- Around line 415-551: Add a focused test covering both missing branches: verify
add_dependency rejects a later-stage requirement with
OperationPlanError::StageRegression, and verify
OperationExecutionContext::execute rejects running the same node twice with
OperationPlanError::AlreadyExecuted after the first successful execution.
- Around line 401-405: Update the From<OperationPlanError> for XmlDocumentError
implementation so operation-plan failures are not converted to
XmlDocumentError::InvalidReplacement. Remove this conversion or introduce and
use a dedicated XmlDocumentError variant that preserves ForeignDocument,
StaleGeneration, Cycle, and execution-order failures.
- Around line 317-334: Update the validate_document method’s attributes to
expect dead_code when the xmlenc feature is disabled, while preserving normal
lint behavior when xmlenc is enabled and its encrypt.rs caller is compiled.
- Line 371: Remove the unused _resource_identity binding and its
self.plan().resource(node) call from execute; do not add an execution-time
resource validation.

In `@src/xmldsig/verify.rs`:
- Around line 3079-3081: Replace the tuple element types in
ParsedManifestReferences with CompiledManifestReference and
CompiledManifestInvalid, and update parse_manifest_references plus its call
sites and consumers to construct and access the named fields while preserving
reference, object, and manifest ordering.
- Around line 890-900: Update the Manifest construction in the manifest_nodes
insertion path to use a sequential index based on manifest_nodes insertion order
rather than manifest_id.get(). Preserve the existing DocumentNode resource
identity and align the index with the sequential manifest-relative convention
used by compile_signing_operation_plan.
- Around line 2786-2833: Update compile_manifest_reference_plan and the Manifest
discovery flow so potential_nodes is expanded only after the referenced
Manifest’s digest has been validated successfully. Do not parse or consume
remaining_reference_capacity for targets whose digest fails; preserve existing
handling for valid references and invalid results.
- Around line 950-970: Update the dependency-building loop over manifest
references so it looks up authenticators for both object_node_id and
manifest_node_id, adding the corresponding dependency whenever either node has
an authenticator and is not already a signed-info reference. Preserve the
existing manifest digest and error-mapping behavior in add_dependency.

In `@src/xmlenc/decrypt.rs`:
- Around line 372-388: Reorder the owned-document decryption flow so the crypto
and evidence plan nodes execute before calling accept, while the mutation node
executes only after accept successfully commits the replacement. Preserve the
documented terminal mutation ordering, and verify candidate-retry behavior for
rejected replacements; if retries are required, separate replacement validation
from accept rather than making the crypto and evidence stages repeat.
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- Gate graph work before parser, resolver, crypto, and mutation closures run
- Validate document, external-resource, and cache identities at execution time
- Advance controlled document generations through the operation context
- Make the operation context the sole authenticated-node authority

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src/xmldsig/verify.rs (1)

1607-1648: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Do not record unprocessed digest nodes as verified.

process_all_references_with_options is fail-fast. It returns results only up to and including the first failing Reference. run_batch_with_resources then marks every node in digest_resources as executed and records ReferenceDigestVerified for all of them.

The loop at Lines 1624-1634 corrects only the nodes that have a matching result. Every digest node after the first failure keeps an accepted decision even though its Reference was never dereferenced, transformed, or digested. The recorded decision evidence therefore contradicts the executed work.

Mark only the nodes that produced a result, or record the remaining nodes with a distinct not-evaluated outcome.

♻️ Proposed adjustment
-    let references = operation.run_batch_with_resources(&digest_resources, || {
+    let evaluated_resources = &digest_resources[..];
+    let references = operation.run_batch_with_resources(evaluated_resources, || {

The minimal change is to execute the digest nodes per Reference instead of as one batch, so a node is marked executed only when its Reference is processed.

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In `@src/xmldsig/verify.rs` around lines 1607 - 1648, Update the digest-node
execution around process_all_references_with_options and the plan_nodes.digests
loop so fail-fast processing cannot mark unprocessed nodes as verified. Execute
or record outcomes only for References that actually produced results, while
preserving the existing verified/rejected decisions and authentication behavior
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In `@src/document.rs`:
- Around line 863-878: Remove the unused test-only helper
replace_node_with_fragment_with_budget and rely on
prepare_node_fragment_replacement_with_budget followed by commit_prepared at its
existing callers. Do not alter the production XML encryption flow or the
underlying preparation and commit methods.

In `@src/xmlenc/encrypt.rs`:
- Around line 415-430: The Element and Content branches in
encrypt_owned_document_with_budgets must fail explicitly when generated.mutation
is absent instead of returning success without replacing the target. Update both
if let Some(mutation) blocks around operation.run_document_transition to use the
existing missing-mutation error contract established by
decrypt_owned_document_with_context, while preserving the current replacement
logic when a mutation is present.
- Around line 511-519: In the encryption flow around compile_encryption_plan and
run_with_resource, clone the existing input_resource for plan compilation and
reuse the original input_resource as the observed identity, passing it by
reference to run_with_resource instead of constructing a second identity from
plaintext.

In `@src/xmlenc/types.rs`:
- Around line 735-739: Update the documentation for
XmlEncError::InvalidStructure to state that it also represents compiled
OperationPlanError failures, including document identity and generation errors,
while preserving the existing From<OperationPlanError> mapping.

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In `@src/xmldsig/verify.rs`:
- Around line 1607-1648: Update the digest-node execution around
process_all_references_with_options and the plan_nodes.digests loop so fail-fast
processing cannot mark unprocessed nodes as verified. Execute or record outcomes
only for References that actually produced results, while preserving the
existing verified/rejected decisions and authentication behavior for processed
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- Execute fail-fast reference nodes only when their work actually runs
- Memoize immutable external resource fingerprints per operation
- Reject encryption inputs before proportional plan construction
- Fail closed on missing mutation nodes and classify graph errors separately
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