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package java.text;
/**
* 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.
*
*
* An example is grammatical information attached to a sentence:
* For the previous sentence, you can say that "an example"
* is the subject, but you cannot say the same about "an", "example", or "exam".
* When the text is changed, the grammatical information typically becomes invalid.
* Another example is Japanese reading information (yomi).
*
*
* Wrapping the attribute value into an Annotation object guarantees that
* adjacent text runs don't get merged even if the attribute values are equal,
* and indicates to text containers that the attribute should be discarded if
* the underlying text is modified.
*
* @see AttributedCharacterIterator
*/
public class Annotation
{
/**
* Constructs an annotation record with the given value, which
* may be null.
* @param value The value of the attribute
*/
public Annotation(Object value) { }
/**
* Returns the value of the attribute, which may be null.
*/
public Object getValue() {
return null;
}
/**
* Returns the String representation of this Annotation.
*/
public String toString() {
return null;
}
}