It's probably important to learn DTDs as a separate exercise, just for the knowledge of how they work in case you encounter them somewhere else, and so that you can appreciate some of the things that XSD was trying to solve.
However, for your current purposes of describing an XML document, indeed stick to XSDs.
In addition to having a far richer feature set (like you mention, including data types and namespaces), they are also XML documents themselves, which can be really useful. Because they are XML, you can check their well-formedness and validity a lot easier, and you can write code that works with them like regular XML files (for instance, if you wanted to autogenerate code classes from a schema)
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