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Setting the XML DOCTYPE

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Demonstrates setting an XML document's DOCTYPE. The sample code below produces the following XML output:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<html>
    <body>This is the HTML body</body>
</html>

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import chilkat2

root = chilkat2.Xml()

root.Tag = "html"

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

root.NewChild2("body","This is the HTML body")

print(root.GetXml())