A Document Type Definition (DTD) is the specification by which XHTML documents are classified.
Each document type definition specifies what type of document an XHTML document will be.
Transitional – XHTML documents that use deprecated elements or attributes.
Frameset – XHTML documents that use frames (can also include deprecated elements or attributes like the transitional document type).
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