diff --git a/readme.html b/readme.html
index 7ef010c11f..ba33afc55d 100644
--- a/readme.html
+++ b/readme.html
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
-<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html>
 <head>
 	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
 	<title>WordPress &#8250; ReadMe</title>
