Q5207 What is a DTD?

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Q5207 What is a DTD?

The XML Document Type Declaration contains or points to markup declarations that provide a grammar for a class of documents. This grammar is known as a document type definition or DTD.

The DTD can point to an external subset containing markup declarations, or can contain the markup declarations directly in an internal subset, or can even do both.