File Extension

DTD File Format

|SGML Document Type Definition (DTD) file

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DTD is a file extension for a Document Type Definition (DTD) file format used in SGML, XML, HTML or XHTML to identify what the variables (or markup) are that format a document. In the case of a text document, for example, markup would specify separating paragraphs, identifying topic headings, and so forth and how each is to be processed.

MIME type: application/xml
text/xml

 

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This was last updated in August 2010
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