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<h1 class="head"><a name="title" id="title">XHTML</a><sup>&#8482;</sup> 1.0:
The Extensible HyperText Markup Language</h1>

<h2>A Reformulation of HTML 4.0 in XML 1.0</h2>

<h3>W3C Proposed Recommendation 10 December 1999</h3>

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<dt>This version:</dt