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: Consider the following WordprocessingML markup for a paragraph which reads The quick brown fox jumps over the jet lagged dog., where jet lagged replaced the previous text lazy when the editing application was tracking revisions:

<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. end example]