Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token < into DOCTYPE html PUBLIC
<p>I am having a series of JavaScript problems and the only thing I notice in the console.log is:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token &lt;</p>
</blockquote>

<p>Which leads me to:</p>

<pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>I can not see a syntax error here. Is there any syntax error in this line? How can I fix it?</p>