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title: Doxia Sink API
author: 
  - Hervé Boutemy
date: 2010-05-08
---

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# Doxia Sink API

The _Sink_ interface is a generic markup language interface provided as a Java API. It contains several methods that encapsulate common text syntax. A start tag is denoted by `xxxx()` method and a end of tag by `xxxx_()` method.

For instance, you could do things like:

```unknown
sink.paragraph();
sink.text("my text");
sink.paragraph_();
```

similar to this HTML markup:

```unknown
<p>my text</p>
```

To find out more about the Sink API, you can read the [Javadoc](./apidocs/org/apache/maven/doxia/sink/Sink.html).

