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"The HTML syntax of HTML5 requires a doctype to be specified to ensure that the browser renders the page in standards mode. The doctype has no other purpose and is therefore optional for XML. Documents with an XML media type are always handled in standards mode." The sentence "The doctype has no other purpose and is therefore optional for XML." doesn't make sense -- it doesn't follow that it's optional in XML. The "and is therefore optional in XML" should be part of the next sentence instead.
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