I probably missed something in the documentation but here is my problem:
I'm trying to process a pretty complex structured document and I do not want to translate the entire structure into annotations. Instead I would like to pass some object containing this additional structure to the respective analysis engines. Note that a static object will not work. Also, I do not want pass this object to the engines when they are constructed/initialized. The best solution I came up with so far is to subclass the CAS object and then to downcast to it in the process( CAS cas) function. Does this make sense? Is there a better solution? Thanks so much in advance Thomas
