The CryptoX509 class

The xml.CryptoX509 class provides methods to manipulate X509 certificates needed for identification of individual persons, groups or any entities during XML encryption or signature process.

This class is provided in the xml C-Extension library; To use this class, import the xml package with:

IMPORT xml

It also provides additional load and save functions to interact with other applications in XML or in BASE64, such as in WS-Security compliant applications. It follows the XML-Signature and XML-Encryption specifications.

The status variable is set to zero after a successful method call.