The purpose of this document is for users and third-party developers to familiarize with the implementation of the XML format used by the Annotation SDK as of release version 12.65.615.
The SDK stores the data of the annotation object instances in XML documents. These XML documents are used to save and load annotations. As with previous versions, the annotations can be both saved and loaded using a separate .ann file, or using a TIFF file header. The Save and Load Annotation functions (that utilize XML format) will be fully compatible with current and older releases of the Annotation SDK. For developers and users who use the functions of the Annotation SDK, these changes will be transparent.