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XML Schema Object Model (XSOM) is a Java library that allows applications to easily parse XML Schema documents and inspect information in them. It is expected to be useful for applications that need to take XML Schema as an input.

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package com.sun.xml.xsom;

import org.xml.sax.Locator;
import com.sun.xml.xsom.parser.AnnotationParser;

/**
 * 
 * XML Schema annotation.
 * 
 * 
 */
public interface XSAnnotation
{
    /**
     * Obtains the application-parsed annotation.
     * 
     * annotations are parsed by the user-specified
     * {@link AnnotationParser}.
     * 
     * @return may return null
     */
    Object getAnnotation();

    /**
     * Sets the value to be returned by {@link #getAnnotation()}.
     *
     * @param o
     *      can be null.
     * @return
     *      old value that was replaced by the o.
     */
    Object setAnnotation(Object o);

    /**
     * Returns a location information of the annotation.
     */
    Locator getLocator();
}