Related

Books

• Secure XML: The New Syntax for Signatures and Encryption Donald E. Eastlake
• XML Security Blake Dournaee
• Securing Web Services with WS-Security : Demystifying WS-Security, WS-Policy, SAML, XML Signature, and XML Encryption Jothy Rosenberg
• Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C, Second Edition Bruce Schneier
• Practical Cryptography Niels Ferguson, Bruce Schneier
• Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World Bruce Schneier
• Web Services Security Mark O'Neill
• Public Key Infrastructure: Building Trusted Applications and Web Services John R. Vacca

Dependencies

• LibXML - GNOME XML library.
• LibXSLT - GNOME XSLT / EXSLT library.
• OpenSSL - SSL / TLS implementation.
• GnuTLS
• Libgcrypt
• NSS - Mozilla cryptographic library.

Projects

• Windows binaries for XML Security Library from Igor Zlatkovic.
  
• XMLSec Library is included as part of Debian GNU/Linux. For more information see the coordination page.
• XMLSec Library FreeBSD and OpenBSD ports.
• PyXMLSec Library - Python bindings for XMLSec Library.
• Perl CPAN module - Perl bindings for XMLSec Library (source code).
• Lasso Library - the Liberty Alliance standards implementation.
• Glasnost - content management, electronic vote and groupware sysem.
• OpenSAML - an open source implementation of SAML 1.0 specification.
• PKCS11 support for XML Security Library 0.0.X.
  
• The BananaHead Point Of Sale project.
  

Specifcations

• XML Signature Syntax and Processing Specification (working group).
• XML Encryption Syntax and Processing Specification (working group).
• XML Key Management Specification (working group).
  
• Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 Specification.
• Namespaces in XML.
• XML Path Language (XPath) Version 1.0.
• XML Pointer language (XPointer).

Articles

• XML Security page - Christian Geuer-Pollmann's collection of links about XML Security.
• An Introduction to XML Encryption and XML Signature.
• ZVON.org - the guide to the XML galaxy.
• Securing Web Services by Rich Salz, XML.com.
• Tools for securing your XML documents by Brian Schaffner, Builder.com.
• XML Benchmark.