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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:
  * <ul>
  * <li>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.
  * <li>The attribute or its value usually do no longer apply if the underlying text is
  * changed.
  * </ul>
  *
  * 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).
  *
  * <p>
  * 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
  * @since 1.2
  */
  
  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) {
          this.value = value;
      }
  
      /**
       * Returns the value of the attribute, which may be null.
       *
       * @return the value of the attribute
       */
      public Object getValue() {
          return value;
      }
  
      /**
       * Returns the String representation of this Annotation.
       *
       * @return the {@code String} representation of this {@code Annotation}
       */
      public String toString() {
          return getClass().getName() + "[value=" + value + "]";
      }
  
      private Object value;
  
  };
  