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 package java.lang;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 
 /**
- * An object to which <tt>char</tt> sequences and values can be appended.  The
- * <tt>Appendable</tt> interface must be implemented by any class whose
+ * An object to which {@code char} sequences and values can be appended.  The
+ * {@code Appendable} interface must be implemented by any class whose
  * instances are intended to receive formatted output from a {@link
  * java.util.Formatter}.
  *
  * <p> The characters to be appended should be valid Unicode characters as
  * described in <a href="Character.html#unicode">Unicode Character
  * Representation</a>.  Note that supplementary characters may be composed of
- * multiple 16-bit <tt>char</tt> values.
+ * multiple 16-bit {@code char} values.
  *
  * <p> Appendables are not necessarily safe for multithreaded access.  Thread
  * safety is the responsibility of classes that extend and implement this
  * interface.
  *
  * <p> Since this interface may be implemented by existing classes
  * with different styles of error handling there is no guarantee that
  * errors will be propagated to the invoker.
  *
  * @since 1.5
  */
 public interface Appendable {
 
     /**
-     * Appends the specified character sequence to this <tt>Appendable</tt>.
+     * Appends the specified character sequence to this {@code Appendable}.
      *
      * <p> Depending on which class implements the character sequence
-     * <tt>csq</tt>, the entire sequence may not be appended.  For
-     * instance, if <tt>csq</tt> is a {@link java.nio.CharBuffer} then
+     * {@code csq}, the entire sequence may not be appended.  For
+     * instance, if {@code csq} is a {@link java.nio.CharBuffer} then
      * the subsequence to append is defined by the buffer's position and limit.
      *
      * @param  csq
-     *         The character sequence to append.  If <tt>csq</tt> is
-     *         <tt>null</tt>, then the four characters <tt>"null"</tt> are
+     *         The character sequence to append.  If {@code csq} is
+     *         {@code null}, then the four characters {@code "null"} are
      *         appended to this Appendable.
      *
-     * @return  A reference to this <tt>Appendable</tt>
+     * @return  A reference to this {@code Appendable}
      *
      * @throws  IOException
      *          If an I/O error occurs
      */
     Appendable append(CharSequence csq) throws IOException;
 
     /**
      * Appends a subsequence of the specified character sequence to this
-     * <tt>Appendable</tt>.
+     * {@code Appendable}.
      *
-     * <p> An invocation of this method of the form <tt>out.append(csq, start,
-     * end)</tt> when <tt>csq</tt> is not <tt>null</tt>, behaves in
+     * <p> An invocation of this method of the form {@code out.append(csq, start, end)}
+     * when {@code csq} is not {@code null}, behaves in
      * exactly the same way as the invocation
      *
      * <pre>
      *     out.append(csq.subSequence(start, end)) </pre>
      *
      * @param  csq
      *         The character sequence from which a subsequence will be
-     *         appended.  If <tt>csq</tt> is <tt>null</tt>, then characters
-     *         will be appended as if <tt>csq</tt> contained the four
-     *         characters <tt>"null"</tt>.
+     *         appended.  If {@code csq} is {@code null}, then characters
+     *         will be appended as if {@code csq} contained the four
+     *         characters {@code "null"}.
      *
      * @param  start
      *         The index of the first character in the subsequence
      *
      * @param  end
      *         The index of the character following the last character in the
      *         subsequence
      *
-     * @return  A reference to this <tt>Appendable</tt>
+     * @return  A reference to this {@code Appendable}
      *
      * @throws  IndexOutOfBoundsException
-     *          If <tt>start</tt> or <tt>end</tt> are negative, <tt>start</tt>
-     *          is greater than <tt>end</tt>, or <tt>end</tt> is greater than
-     *          <tt>csq.length()</tt>
+     *          If {@code start} or {@code end} are negative, {@code start}
+     *          is greater than {@code end}, or {@code end} is greater than
+     *          {@code csq.length()}
      *
      * @throws  IOException
      *          If an I/O error occurs
      */
     Appendable append(CharSequence csq, int start, int end) throws IOException;
 
     /**
-     * Appends the specified character to this <tt>Appendable</tt>.
+     * Appends the specified character to this {@code Appendable}.
      *
      * @param  c
      *         The character to append
      *
-     * @return  A reference to this <tt>Appendable</tt>
+     * @return  A reference to this {@code Appendable}
      *
      * @throws  IOException
      *          If an I/O error occurs
      */
     Appendable append(char c) throws IOException;
 }