Re: XHTML 1.0 Transitional-I don't understand, why my page is not valid.

Is leaving "old" stuff like this up on the web really useful?  Or is it just ridiculous clutter?  Anyways...I appreciate any assistance that can be given why THIS source code is not passing as valid:

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