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+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" >
+<!-- very simple template that exists mainly so that edge cases like test execution don't fail -->
+<head>
+	<% base_tag %>
+	$MetaTags
+</head>
+<body>
+	<h1>$Title</h1>
+	$Content
+	$Form
+	
+	<p><i>Generated with the default ContentController.ss template</i></p>
+</body>
+</html>
