Inline Annotations

Inline annotations describe all annotations which do not require special handling in order to maintain the XML wellformedness requirements of the resulting WordprocessingML output. In these cases, a single XML element shall encapsulate the entire contents of the document content which is being annotated.

example:

<w:p>
  <w:r>
    <w:t xml:space="preserve">The quick brown fox jumps over the </w:t>
  </w:r>
  <w:del … >
    <w:r>
      <w:delText>lazy</w:delText>
    </w:r>
  </w:del>
  <w:ins … >
    <w:r>
      <w:t>jet lagged</w:t>
    </w:r>
  </w:ins>
  <w:r>
    <w:t xml:space="preserve"> dog.</w:t>
  </w:r>
</w:p>

The <del> and <ins> elements (§2.13.5.12; §2.13.5.20) each fully encapsulate the extent of their respective annotations (a marked deletion and insertion, respectively), as they are inline annotations. ]