Annotation

public class Annotation
extends Object

An Annotation object is used as a wrapper for a text attribute value if the attribute has annotation characteristics. These characteristics are:

• The text range that the attribute is applied to is critical to the semantics of the range. That means, the attribute cannot be applied to subranges of the text range that it applies to, and, if two adjacent text ranges have the same value for this attribute, the attribute still cannot be applied to the combined range as a whole with this value.
• The attribute or its value usually do no longer apply if the underlying text is changed.

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