DocumentID: ECMA-376/Part4/2.13 Title: ECMA-376, Part4: 2.13 Annotations Extracted-From: ECMA-376 Office Open XML File Formats, 1st Edition / December 2006 Warning: Coverted to HTML format by a script known to have bugs
Within a WordprocessingML document, annotations refer to various types of supplementary markup which may be stored inside or around a region of text within the document's contents. [Example: The types of supplementary information stored within a document may include: comments, revisions, spelling and/or grammatical errors, bookmark information and optional editing permissions. end example]
Within a document's contents, annotations are stored in one of three different methods:
These three forms are needed in order to maintain compatibility with both the legacy annotations functionality of current word processing applications and the requirements of an XML-based format (i.e. wellformedness of the resulting XML markup). These three forms are referenced within the individual annotation types described in the following sub clauses.