build: add libxmlsec capability ledger

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Summary

• add a deterministic generator for the complete libxmlsec1 1.3.13 public surface
• classify 5,052 headers, symbols, typedef aliases, ABI layouts, conditional macro definitions, configured values, compiler defines, class IDs, callbacks, registries, URI constants, typed CLI options and behavior, and donor test families with rationale and executable evidence
• use a normalized schema with 13 shared classifications and 427 source/line availability spans instead of repeating derived IDs, classification metadata, and preprocessor paths on every item
• lex C declarations and directives fail-closed, removing comments outside literals while preserving literal bytes and rejecting unterminated lexical states
• derive the generator, installer, tests, documentation, and CI checkout from one canonical upstream commit pin
• fail closed when donor identity or worktree state, declarations, preprocessor structure, C literal values, macro bodies, configured substitutions, compiler definitions, typed CLI options, runner families, source locations, classifications, or evidence references drift
• distinguish standards-default XPath behavior from the explicit libxmlsec1 here() compatibility mode, verification-only SHA-1 digests, policy-gated legacy signatures, provider-backed transforms, and unsupported backend-specific APIs
• keep independent xmlenc feature builds valid without enabling XMLDSig

Testing

• cargo check --workspace --all-targets --all-features
• cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings
• cargo clippy --no-default-features --features xmlenc --lib -- -D warnings
• cargo nextest run (939 passed, 0 skipped)
• cargo nextest run --all-features (1,044 passed, 0 skipped)
• cargo nextest run --no-default-features --features xmlenc --test capability_ledger (11 passed, 0 skipped)
• cargo nextest run -p xml-sec-capability-ledger (28 passed, 0 skipped)
• cargo test --doc --all-features (6 passed)
• cargo build --workspace --all-features
• cargo fmt --all -- --check
• deterministic ledger check against the pinned pristine libxmlsec1 donor
• bash -n scripts/install-xmlsec1.sh
• actionlint .github/workflows/ci.yml

Closes #110

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• compatibility/libxmlsec1-1.3.13-rules.json
• compatibility/libxmlsec1-1.3.13.json
• docs/compatibility-ledger.md
• src/hard_limits.rs
• src/policy.rs
• tests/capability_ledger.rs
• tools/capability-ledger/src/main.rs

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation

  • Added a compatibility ledger covering supported, restricted, planned, and unsupported portions of libxmlsec1 1.3.13.
  • Added a README status note linking to the ledger.

• Quality & Validation

  • Added automated checks for ledger completeness, classifications, evidence, and upstream compatibility.
  • Added CI validation against a pinned upstream revision.

• Developer Tools

  • Added tools to generate and verify the machine-readable compatibility ledger.
  • Centralized the pinned upstream revision used by installation and compatibility checks.

Walkthrough

The PR adds a Rust capability-ledger generator and checker for pinned libxmlsec1 1.3.13 sources. It adds machine-readable rules, committed-ledger tests, documentation, workspace wiring, and CI checks for donor or ledger drift.

Changes

Capability ledger

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Ledger contract and project wiring Cargo.toml, tools/capability-ledger/Cargo.toml, compatibility/..., docs/..., README.md	Defines the workspace, ledger schema, compatibility outcomes, evidence rules, donor metadata, and regeneration procedures.
Donor surface extraction tools/capability-ledger/src/main.rs	Validates the pinned donor checkout and extracts headers, declarations, build defines, algorithm URIs, CLI behavior, and upstream test families.
Classification and ledger generation tools/capability-ledger/src/main.rs	Applies ordered rules, validates evidence and rule coverage, and generates or checks deterministic JSON output.
Committed ledger validation and CI tests/capability_ledger.rs, .github/workflows/ci.yml, scripts/install-xmlsec1.sh, tests/install_xmlsec1.rs, tests/fixtures/*/README.md	Validates metadata, ordering, completeness, classifications, policy boundaries, and committed-ledger consistency. Shared donor metadata replaces hard-coded revisions.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to fc4f6

The generator may produce malformed declaration details and silently omit some public compiler defines, leaving the capability ledger incomplete or inaccurate; merge should wait for these bounded correctness issues to be fixed or explicitly accepted.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CI
  participant CapabilityLedger
  participant DonorCheckout
  participant RulesManifest
  participant CommittedLedger
  CI->>DonorCheckout: check out pinned libxmlsec1 revision
  CI->>CapabilityLedger: run check
  CapabilityLedger->>DonorCheckout: extract public surface
  CapabilityLedger->>RulesManifest: load classification and evidence rules
  CapabilityLedger->>CommittedLedger: compare generated ledger
  CapabilityLedger-->>CI: report matching or stale ledger

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Possibly related PRs

• structured-world/xml-sec#20: The ledger inventories XMLDSig APIs, transforms, digest algorithms, and donor fixtures introduced by this PR.
• structured-world/xml-sec#103: The ledger classifies XMLDSig transform support implemented by this PR.
• structured-world/xml-sec#108: Both PRs update xmlsec1 donor pinning, installation, and fixture references.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 48.89% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes address issue #110 by adding a pinned, deterministic ledger generator, classifications, evidence, tests, and documentation.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The listed changes support the linked issue objectives and do not show unrelated code or configuration changes.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the addition of the libxmlsec capability ledger, which is the primary change.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly summarizes the capability ledger, deterministic generation, compatibility classifications, validation, and testing.

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Inline comments:
In `@docs/compatibility-ledger.md`:
- Around line 18-25: Update the Outcome meanings table in
compatibility-ledger.md to document the missing exact and source-compatible
outcomes defined by Outcome and accepted by tests/capability_ledger.rs. Add
clear rows for both values, or explicitly mark them as reserved and currently
unused, so every accepted outcome has documented behavior.
- Around line 35-51: Update both documented xml-sec capability-ledger commands
to use .donors/xmlsec instead of donors/xmlsec, and add a .donors/ ignore entry
alongside the existing donors/ rule so the CI checkout path is ignored.

In `@tests/capability_ledger.rs`:
- Around line 148-151: Extend the evidence validation in the capability ledger
test to build a set of referenced evidence identifiers and assert every ledger
evidence entry is included, then collect the actual test names defined in this
file and assert each evidence.test matches one of them. Preserve the existing
prefix and non-empty description checks while updating the loop around
ledger.evidence.

In `@tools/capability-ledger/src/main.rs`:
- Around line 9-10: The pinned donor commit is duplicated across
EXPECTED_COMMIT, the CI workflow, the capability-ledger test, and compatibility
documentation. Introduce one canonical donor-revision source, update the tool
and test to read or derive EXPECTED_COMMIT from it, and make the workflow
consume the same value while keeping documentation synchronized with that
source.
- Around line 223-242: Update the header parsing loop around in_headers so the
inc_HEADERS assignment remains active only across lines that continue with a
trailing backslash. Clear in_headers when the continuation is absent, while
preserving existing $(NULL) termination and header capture behavior; do not
collect later .h tokens from unrelated entries or comments.
- Around line 480-494: Update the exit-status entries in the ledger generator
around the visible item calls to validate the corresponding lines in donor
content before recording line numbers. Assert or locate the expected success,
unknown-command, and failure text using the available content, and fail
generation when a line no longer matches so shifted donor evidence cannot pass
silently.
- Around line 517-525: Update the loop that records the test-family entries to
verify each script exists in the donor input before calling item; only append
entries for present runner scripts, and otherwise fail closed consistently with
the other extractors. Use the existing input/path validation mechanism rather
than adding a separate hardcoded check.
- Around line 439-462: Update resolve_c_string_expression to verify that regex
matches cover the entire expression, rejecting any unmatched text—including
lowercase or otherwise unrecognized tokens—before returning a resolved value.
Preserve existing macro lookup errors and empty-expression validation, and only
return the assembled string when the full expression consists of valid quoted
literals and resolvable macro names.
- Around line 641-651: Update exported_name to identify the outer declarator
rather than selecting the last identifier followed by “(”, avoiding incorrect
names such as int or XMLSEC_API for function-pointer parameters and trailing
macros. Add regression tests covering both cases and preserve correct extraction
for ordinary function and variable declarations.

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• .github/workflows/ci.yml
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• compatibility/libxmlsec1-1.3.13-rules.json
• compatibility/libxmlsec1-1.3.13.json
• docs/compatibility-ledger.md
• tests/capability_ledger.rs
• tools/capability-ledger/Cargo.toml
• tools/capability-ledger/src/main.rs

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xml-sec/tools/capability-ledger/src/main.rs

Lines 270 to 271 in 20b7f2a

	let class_re = Regex::new(r"^\s*#\s*define\s+(xmlSec[A-Za-z0-9_]*Id)\s+.*GetKlass")
	.expect("valid class regex");

Parse continued class-ID macro definitions

When a class-ID macro places GetKlass on the continuation line, as the pinned donor commonly does (the generated artifact itself records definitions such as #define xmlSecGCryptKeyDataAesId \), this single-line regex never emits a class-id item because it only examines the first line. Consequently, the ledger and its category-count test omit a large portion of the class-ID surface despite claiming a complete inventory; collect the full macro definition before applying the class-ID predicate.

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xml-sec/compatibility/libxmlsec1-1.3.13-rules.json

Lines 54 to 58 in 20b7f2a

	"id": "backend-provider-surface",
	"kinds": ["backend-api"],
	"outcome": "provider-limited",
	"rationale": "Rust exposes a backend-neutral CryptoProvider contract rather than libxmlsec1 backend-specific C symbols.",
	"evidence": "provider-contract"

Do not classify every backend API as provider-covered

When consumers interpret provider-limited using the documented meaning that the Rust provider abstraction covers the capability, this rule overstates support for all 847 backend APIs. For example, the resulting ledger gives this outcome to xmlSecOpenSSLAppPkcs12Load, app initialization, and key-manager APIs, while CryptoProvider only exposes cryptographic primitives such as digest, sign/verify, encryption, and key transport; these entries need a planned/unsupported classification unless an actual provider equivalent exists.

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https://github.com/structured-world/xml-sec/blob/20b7f2ad997e82a1a43064df4c4931fa4d281993/compatibility/libxmlsec1-1.3.13.json#L632-L635
Mark the EncryptedKey type URI as unsupported

When an XMLDSig RetrievalMethod uses Type="http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#EncryptedKey", the verification pipeline leaves that retrieval source unmaterialized: materialize_retrieval_methods only handles raw X.509 and X509Data types, and the default resolver ignores remaining retrieval methods. Therefore this URI is not parsed and executed as this entry claims; parsing an EncryptedKey element by QName in the separate XMLEnc path does not provide the libxmlsec key-data URI behavior.

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xml-sec/.github/workflows/ci.yml

Lines 35 to 36 in 20b7f2a

	- run: >-
	cargo run -p xml-sec-capability-ledger -- check

Run the ledger package's unit tests in CI

In the checked CI workflow, this command only builds and executes the ledger binary; it does not run the six #[cfg(test)] tests in that package. Because the workspace root is also a package, Cargo metadata selects only xml-sec as the default member, so the existing test-matrix command also skips xml-sec-capability-ledger; parser regressions covered by tests such as unresolved URI macros and donor revision rejection can therefore land without being exercised.

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xml-sec/tools/capability-ledger/src/main.rs

Line 368 in 20b7f2a

if name.contains("Register") || name.contains("GetKlass") && name.contains("Ids") {

Inventory the full registry lifecycle

When inventorying registry entry points, this predicate records registration functions but omits the corresponding public getters and lifecycle APIs. The generated ledger consequently classifies xmlSecKeyDataIdsRegister as registry while leaving xmlSecKeyDataIdsGet, GetEnabled, Init, and Shutdown—and the analogous transform functions—as ordinary exports, so consumers of the promised registry inventory see an incomplete parity target.

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xml-sec/tools/capability-ledger/src/main.rs

Lines 145 to 149 in 20b7f2a

	.args([
	"-C",
	donor.to_str().ok_or("donor path is not UTF-8")?,
	"rev-parse",
	"HEAD",

Reject dirty donor checkouts

When generate is run against the pinned commit with locally modified headers or source files, this check still succeeds because it validates only HEAD. The tool then extracts the modified working tree but stamps the resulting ledger with the pristine pinned commit, producing provenance that cannot reproduce the artifact; verify tracked-file cleanliness before accepting the donor or extract directly from the Git object.

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xml-sec/tools/capability-ledger/src/main.rs

Lines 398 to 399 in 20b7f2a

	let regex =
	Regex::new(r"\b(XMLSEC_(?:NO|CRYPTO)_[A-Z0-9_]+)\b").expect("valid configure define regex");

Exclude configure variables from build defines

When this regex encounters ordinary configure shell/substitution variables, it records them as C build defines merely because their names start with XMLSEC_CRYPTO_. The committed ledger therefore includes entries such as XMLSEC_CRYPTO_CFLAGS, XMLSEC_CRYPTO_LIBS, and XMLSEC_CRYPTO_PC_FILES_LIST under build-define and labels them binary-ABI-incompatible, even though they are not preprocessor defines or C ABI surface; extraction should target actual define declarations rather than every matching token.

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xml-sec/tools/capability-ledger/src/main.rs

Lines 303 to 304 in 20b7f2a

	if line.trim_start().starts_with("typedef enum") {
	let (block, end) = collect_until(&lines, index, ";");

Terminate enum parsing at the closing declaration

When an enum's Doxygen comment contains an HTML entity such as <...>, collect_until(..., ";") stops at the entity's semicolon instead of the enum terminator. This already corrupts the committed entries beginning at xmldsig.h:182 and xmlenc.h:40: both are named anonymous-enum-* and contain only the first variant, so the ledger drops the remaining values and the real typedef name.

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xml-sec/tools/capability-ledger/src/main.rs

Lines 338 to 340 in 20b7f2a

	} else if line.contains("typedef") && line.contains("(*") {
	let (block, end) = collect_until(&lines, index, ";");
	if let Some(capture) = callback_re.captures(&block) {

Inventory ordinary public typedefs

When a public type is declared by an ordinary typedef rather than an enum or function pointer, it falls through this parser and receives no ledger item. The committed artifact has no entries for foundational source-compatibility types such as xmlSecByte, xmlSecSize, xmlSecKeyPtr, or xmlSecTransformPtr, even though exported declarations depend on them; a ledger advertised as the complete C public surface must inventory these aliases explicitly.

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- Around line 571-587: Update extract_build_defines_from_content to match every
-DXMLSEC_* compiler define using the full XMLSEC_[A-Z0-9_]+ pattern, ensuring
entries such as XMLSEC_CUSTOM_CRYPT32, XMLSEC_DL_LIBLTDL,
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- Around line 1144-1179: Update normalize to lex and remove C comments before
whitespace normalization, supporting both line comments and block comments while
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otherwise fail normalization when a literal or block comment is unterminated
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