This file contains a set of rules that define on what type of character or number sequences the annotator should act and how it should act.
During development of the annotator, you might want to test it out on some sample text.
In such cases, the annotator-supplier design avoids the risk of missed annotations for join points.
With the annotator aspect approach, the participation occurs only at the level of a Shared understanding of annotation type.
The rule and type system changes discussed in the previous section must be applied to the XML rule and type system files in the installed version of the regular expression annotator PEAR.
A variation of this technique USES the annotator aspect as a bridge between annotations used for business purpose and annotations used for aspect implementation.
