diff --git a/mdx/common-beans.xml b/mdx/common-beans.xml
index 9c2cb544..b552abbc 100644
--- a/mdx/common-beans.xml
+++ b/mdx/common-beans.xml
@@ -86,6 +86,9 @@
     <bean id="CompositeStage" abstract="true" parent="stage_parent"
         class="net.shibboleth.metadata.pipeline.CompositeStage"/>
 
+    <bean id="XMLSignatureSigningStage" abstract="true" parent="stage_parent"
+        class="net.shibboleth.metadata.dom.XMLSignatureSigningStage"/>
+
     <!--
         XMLSignatureValidationStage
         
@@ -137,6 +140,10 @@
         </property>
     </bean>
 
+    <bean id="XPathFilteringStage" abstract="true" parent="stage_parent"
+        class="net.shibboleth.metadata.dom.XPathFilteringStage"
+        p:namespaceContext-ref="commonNamespaces"/>
+
     <!--
         XSLTransformationStage