python-xmlsec

Python bindings for the XML Security Library.

Usage

Check the examples to see various examples of signing and verifying using the library.

Install

Pre-Install

Linux (Debian)

apt-get install libxml2-dev libxmlsec1-dev

Linux (CentOS)

yum install libxml2-devel xmlsec1-devel xmlsec1-openssl-devel libtool-ltdl-devel

Mac

brew install libxml2 libxmlsec1

Automated

xmlsec can be installed through easy_install or pip.
```
pip install xmlsec
```

Mac

If you get any fatal errors about missing .h files, update your C_INCLUDE_PATH environment variable to include the appropriate files from the libxml2 and libxmlsec1 libraries.

Manual

Clone the xmlsec repository to your local computer.

git clone git://github.com/mehcode/python-xmlsec.git

Change into the xmlsec root directory.
```
cd /path/to/xmlsec
```
Install the project and all its dependencies using pip.
```
pip install .
```

Contributing

Setting up your environment

Follow steps 1 and 2 of the manual installation instructions.

Initialize a virtual environment to develop in. This is done so as to ensure every contributor is working with close-to-identicial versions of packages.
```
mkvirtualenv xmlsec
```
The mkvirtualenv command is available from virtualenvwrapper which can be installed by following: http://virtualenvwrapper.readthedocs.org/en/latest/install.html#basic-installation
Install xmlsec in development mode with testing enabled. This will download all dependencies required for running the unit tests.
```
pip install -e ".[test]"
```

Running the test suite

Set up your environment.
Run the unit tests.
```
py.test
```

License

Unless otherwise noted, all files contained within this project are liensed under the MIT opensource license. See the included file LICENSE or visit opensource.org for more information.

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