A representation of the XML Manifest element as defined in the W3C Recommendation for XML-Signature Syntax and Processing. The XML Schema Definition is defined as:

<element name="Manifest" type="ds:ManifestType"/>
  <complexType name="ManifestType">
    <sequence>
      <element ref="ds:Reference" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
    </sequence>
    <attribute name="Id" type="ID" use="optional"/>
  </complexType>

A Manifest instance may be created by invoking one of the newManifest methods of the XMLSignatureFactory class; for example:

  XMLSignatureFactory factory = XMLSignatureFactory.getInstance("DOM");
  Reference ref = factory.newReference("#reference-1", DigestMethod.SHA1);
  List<Reference> references = Collections.singletonList(ref);
  Manifest manifest = factory.newManifest(references, "manifest-1");