A text annotation from a BPMN diagram is transformed into an Artifact element in XPDL. The Artifact element has an ArtifactType attribute that receives the value Annotation. The value of the TextAnnotation attribute contains the text from the text annotation.
The connection to the annotated element in the BPMN diagram is transformed to an Association element in XPDL.
Graphical information belonging to the text annotation from ARIS and the relationship to the annotated element are also transformed to XPDL.