Moving to XML

What is a Document Type Definition?

• Essentially, a dictionary for the language you are using.
• Every Web author has heard of one
• Every good Web author has seen one
  • typically http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd
• Very few Web authors have written one

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