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Old 01-17-2014, 04:27 AM   #8
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No, it is not mandatory, and in fact since the XML spec allows XML processors to not load externally defined DTDs, using it is unsafe in combination with named entities.

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps...html-documents
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