Inline Customizations

Customizations to JAXB bindings made by means of inline binding declarations in an XML schema file take the form of <xsd:appinfo> elements embedded in schema <xsd:annotation> elements (xsd: is the XML schema namespace prefix, as defined in W3C XML Schema Part 1: Structures). The general form for inline customizations is shown below.

<xs:annotation>
   <xs:appinfo>
      .
      .
      binding declarations      .
      .
   </xs:appinfo>
</xs:annotation>

Customizations are applied at the location at which they are declared in the schema. For example, a declaration at the level of a particular element would apply to that element only. Note that the XMLSchema namespace prefix must be used with the <annotation> and <appinfo> declaration tags. In the example above, xs: is used as the namespace prefix, so the declarations are tagged <xs:annotation> and <xs:appinfo>.