Class Binding Declarations

The following code shows the class binding declarations in po.xsd:

<xsd:complexType name="PurchaseOrderType">
      <xsd:annotation>
      <xsd:appinfo>
         <jxb:class name="POType">
            <jxb:javadoc>
            A &lt;b>Purchase Order&lt;/b> consists of addresses and items.
            </jxb:javadoc>
         </jxb:class>
      </xsd:appinfo>
      </xsd:annotation>
      .
      .
      .
</xsd:complexType>

The Javadoc tool annotations for the schema-derived POType class will contain the description "A &lt;b>Purchase Order&lt;/b> consists of addresses and items." The &lt; is used to escape the opening bracket on the <b> HTML tags.

When a <class> customization is specified in the appinfo element of a complexType definition, as it is here, the complexType definition is bound to a Java content interface.

Later in po.xsd, another <javadoc> customization is declared at this class level, but this time the HTML string is escaped with CDATA:

<xsd:annotation>
  <xsd:appinfo>
    <jxb:class>
      <jxb:javadoc>
        <![CDATA[ First line of documentation for a <b>USAddress</b>.]]>
      </jxb:javadoc>
    </jxb:class>
  </xsd:appinfo>
</xsd:annotation>

If you want to include HTML markup tags in a <jaxb:javadoc> customization, you must enclose the data within a CDATA section or escape all left angle brackets using &lt;. See XML 1.0 2nd Edition for more information.