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Web-Design Tutorials by Dr Sam

XHTML Strict Specs, Part 1

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DTD

Reason

The DTD tells the browsers about the mark-up language in the document.

  • The browsers "see" the DTD immediately at the top of the document.
  • The first part of the DTD tells them which markup language has been used.
  • But what if a browser does not know the language?
  • The second part of the DTD tells them where to find the language definition (like a dictionary), which a browser can fetch and apply instantaneously.