Guidelines on DTD declaration

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Hi,

 I encounter the following error when trying to do xml transformation 

  The declaration for the entity "HTML.Version" must end with '>'. I am
trying to troubleshoot this way. Guess its to do with the declaration.

Is it mandatory to declare this way?

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

 or is it ok to declare this way [to avoid the above said error.]

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

Thanks and regards,
eswar