Annotations (XSM)

Annotations are only available in models targeted with XSD.

You define annotations when you want to add information about an XML model. There are three kinds of annotations:

Annotation - provides extra information on XML models or schemas. You can define multiple annotations at this level, and each can contain multiple documentation and/or application information tags.
Documentation – is contained within an annotation and contains an URI reference or any well-formed XML content that gives extra information about XML objects or documents
Application Information - is contained within an annotation and contains an URI reference or any well-formed XML content that is used by applications for processing instructions

Generated schema of a global annotation:

This global annotation is composed of a documentation, with a well-formed XML content (extract of a DTD file), and an application information.

Creating an Annotation
You can create a annotation at the global level in any of the following ways:
Creating a Documentation or Application Information
You can create a documentation or application information using the following tools on the:

Parent topic: Building XML Diagrams