166 Chapter 5 • XML Digital Signatures “Vendor Toolkits”); otherwise, you might discover that you are actually signing something different from what you think you are signing. Using XSLT to Transform a Document As powerful as XPath is, it is a fairly passive mechanism. Data is or is not allowed to pass, but XPath does nothing to the data.The optional XSLT algorithm pro- vides the ability to actively manipulate the data on its way to getting signed.The basic steps are the same as applying XPath: Define a Transform element that will use the XML style sheet language (XSLT) to manipulate the data. In order to do this, you define a style sheet that will provide the desired processing to the input data.The XSLT language is worthy of study on its own; it provides a rich syntax for defining the manipulations that you want to apply. In this section, we look only at a simple example, the same problem that we have addressed using XPath: stripping out all but the location element from the weather report data. A simple style sheet that can accomplish this task is shown in Figure 5.14. Figure 5.14 A Simple Style Sheet for Obtaining Only the Weather Station Locations <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:output encoding="UTF-8" indent="no" method="xml" /> <xsl:template match="document/header"> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="document"> <xsl:apply-templates /> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="content/weather"> <xsl:apply-templates/> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="location"> <xsl:apply-templates /> </xsl:template> www.syngress.com Continued