public interface XMLObject extends XMLStructure

A representation of the XML Object element as defined in the W3C Recommendation for XML-Signature Syntax and Processing. An XMLObject may contain any data and may include optional MIME type, ID, and encoding attributes. The XML Schema Definition is defined as:

 <element name="Object" type="ds:ObjectType"/>
 <complexType name="ObjectType" mixed="true">
   <sequence minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
     <any namespace="##any" processContents="lax"/>
   </sequence>
   <attribute name="Id" type="ID" use="optional"/>
   <attribute name="MimeType" type="string" use="optional"/>
   <attribute name="Encoding" type="anyURI" use="optional"/>
 </complexType>
 

A XMLObject instance may be created by invoking the newXMLObject method of the XMLSignatureFactory class; for example:

   XMLSignatureFactory fac = XMLSignatureFactory.getInstance("DOM");
   Manifest manifest = fac.newManifest(references);
   List<XMLStructure> content = Collections.singletonList(manifest);
   XMLObject object = factory.newXMLObject(content, "object-1", null, null);
 

Note that this class is named XMLObject rather than Object to avoid naming clashes with the existing java.lang.Object class.