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Encrypting and Decrypting Content

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Demonstrates how to encrypt and decrypt the content of an XML node using 128-bit CBC AES encryption.

The input XML, available at http://www.chilkatsoft.com/data/fox.xml, is this:

<root>
    <fox1>The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog</fox1>
    <fox2>The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
        <child1>ABC</child1>
        <child2>XYZ</child2>
    </fox2>
</root>

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Unicode C
#include <C_CkXmlW.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    BOOL success;
    HCkXmlW xml;

    success = FALSE;

    xml = CkXmlW_Create();

    // The sample input XML is available at http://www.chilkatsoft.com/data/fox.xml
    success = CkXmlW_LoadXmlFile(xml,L"fox.xml");
    if (success != TRUE) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",CkXmlW_lastErrorText(xml));
        CkXmlW_Dispose(xml);
        return;
    }

    // Navigate to the "fox1" node, which is the 1st child:
    success = CkXmlW_FirstChild2(xml);

    // Encrypt the content:
    success = CkXmlW_EncryptContent(xml,L"myPassword");

    // Navigate back to the root:
    CkXmlW_GetRoot2(xml);

    // Examine the new XML document:
    wprintf(L"%s\n",CkXmlW_getXml(xml));

    // This is the XML w/ the encrypted content:
    // <root>
    //     <fox1>1hTtf7XmO+78H+OIr5eWHIuXxP78KPeYrZbsD0HX4negO9ZRqYMBY4s46sPNp+Q+
    //     </fox1>
    //     <fox2>The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
    //         <child1>ABC</child1>
    //         <child2>XYZ</child2>
    //     </fox2>
    // </root>

    // Now decrypt and show that the original content was restored:
    success = CkXmlW_FirstChild2(xml);
    success = CkXmlW_DecryptContent(xml,L"myPassword");
    CkXmlW_GetRoot2(xml);
    wprintf(L"%s\n",CkXmlW_getXml(xml));

    // Now encrypt the content of the "fox2" node.
    // First navigate to the "fox2" child.
    success = CkXmlW_FindChild2(xml,L"fox2");
    success = CkXmlW_EncryptContent(xml,L"myPassword");
    CkXmlW_GetRoot2(xml);
    wprintf(L"%s\n",CkXmlW_getXml(xml));

    // This is the XML w/ the "fox2" encrypted content:

    // <root>
    //     <fox1>The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog</fox1>
    //     <fox2>1hTtf7XmO+78H+OIr5eWHIuXxP78KPeYrZbsD0HX4negO9ZRqYMBY4s46sPNp+Q+
    // 
    //         <child1>ABC</child1>
    //         <child2>XYZ</child2>
    //     </fox2>
    // </root>

    // Notice that the *content* of the node is encrypted.  The child nodes are NOT encrypted.
    // This is intentional.  To encrypt the content + the subtrees rooted at a given node, 
    // one would call ZipTree to transform the content and subtrees
    // to Base64-encoded compressed content, and then call
    // EncryptContent to encrypt.

    // Finally, decrypt the "fox2" content:
    success = CkXmlW_FindChild2(xml,L"fox2");
    success = CkXmlW_DecryptContent(xml,L"myPassword");
    CkXmlW_GetRoot2(xml);
    wprintf(L"%s\n",CkXmlW_getXml(xml));


    CkXmlW_Dispose(xml);

    }