Is there a way to create a hash of an element with all of its descendants?
I want to uniquely identify an element within a XML document not by its
position but by its content (not concatenated string values). Something
like a hashed Infoset of an element in a Base64 format.
The reason why I want to do this is because different users of the document
apply different values to the elements in the document.
Right now, I'm running the XML file through a MD5 algorithm which produces a
hash of the file. Then, I save that hash to a file with the values the user
applys to that document, but this approach doesn't allow for the elements to
change their position within the document.
I know XML Digital Signatures might be what I want, but I don't know where
to begin. I'm currently using MSXML4 and .NET for my XML work. Is where
any hope for me?
