Notice that the xhtml tags travel in pairs, an opening and a closing tag: <html> </html>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd" >

<html>

<head>

<title> basic xhtml page structure </title>

</head>

<body>

 

</body>

</html>