https://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/: Xerces2 is the next generation of high performance, fully compliant XML parsers in the Apache Xerces family. This new version of Xerces introduces the Xerces Native Interface (XNI), a complete framework for building parser components and configurations that is extremely modular and easy to program. The Apache Xerces2 parser is the reference implementation of XNI but other parser components, configurations, and parsers can be written using the Xerces Native Interface. For complete design and implementation documents, refer to the XNI Manual. Xerces2 is a fully conforming XML Schema 1.0 processor. A partial experimental implementation of the XML Schema 1.1 Structures and Datatypes Working Drafts (December 2009) and an experimental implementation of the XML Schema Definition Language (XSD): Component Designators (SCD) Candidate Recommendation (January 2010) are provided for evaluation. For more information, refer to the XML Schema page. Xerces2 also provides a complete implementation of the Document Object Model Level 3 Core and Load/Save W3C Recommendations and provides a complete implementation of the XML Inclusions (XInclude) W3C Recommendation. It also provides support for OASIS XML Catalogs v1.1. Xerces2 is able to parse documents written according to the XML 1.1 Recommendation, except that it does not yet provide an option to enable normalization checking as described in section 2.13 of this specification. It also handles namespaces according to the XML Namespaces 1.1 Recommendation, and will correctly serialize XML 1.1 documents if the DOM level 3 load/save APIs are in use. 
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package org.apache.xerces.xs;


This interface represents the Annotation schema component.

/**
 * This interface represents the Annotation schema component.
 */
public interface XSAnnotation extends XSObject {
    // TargetType
    
The object type is org.w3c.dom.Element.

/**
     * The object type is <code>org.w3c.dom.Element</code>.
     */
    public static final short W3C_DOM_ELEMENT           = 1;
    
The object type is org.xml.sax.ContentHandler.

/**
     * The object type is <code>org.xml.sax.ContentHandler</code>.
     */
    public static final short SAX_CONTENTHANDLER        = 2;
    
The object type is org.w3c.dom.Document.

/**
     * The object type is <code>org.w3c.dom.Document</code>.
     */
    public static final short W3C_DOM_DOCUMENT          = 3;

    
 Write contents of the annotation to the specified object. If the 
specified target is a DOM object, in-scope namespace 
declarations for annotation element are added as 
attribute nodes of the serialized annotation, otherwise 
the corresponding events for all in-scope namespace declarations are 
sent via the specified document handler. 

Params:
  • target –  A target pointer to the annotation target object, i.e. 
  org.w3c.dom.Document, org.w3c.dom.Element
  , org.xml.sax.ContentHandler.
  • targetType –  A target type.
Returns: True if the target is a recognized type and 
  supported by this implementation, otherwise false.
/**
     *  Write contents of the annotation to the specified object. If the 
     * specified <code>target</code> is a DOM object, in-scope namespace 
     * declarations for <code>annotation</code> element are added as 
     * attribute nodes of the serialized <code>annotation</code>, otherwise 
     * the corresponding events for all in-scope namespace declarations are 
     * sent via the specified document handler. 
     * @param target  A target pointer to the annotation target object, i.e. 
     *   <code>org.w3c.dom.Document</code>, <code>org.w3c.dom.Element</code>
     *   , <code>org.xml.sax.ContentHandler</code>. 
     * @param targetType  A target type. 
     * @return  True if the <code>target</code> is a recognized type and 
     *   supported by this implementation, otherwise false. 
     */
    public boolean writeAnnotation(Object target, 
                                   short targetType);

    
A text representation of the annotation.

/**
     * A text representation of the annotation.
     */
    public String getAnnotationString();

}