Explanation of this HTML code?

Dave

New member
I created a new HTML document in DreamWeaver at college and this code was in teh document can someone pelase explain it to me, and also does this have to go in all websites? And I know what the head and body tags and that do, I'm just confused by the first and second tages and the first tag inside the head

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-…
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
</body>
</html>
 
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