diff --git a/templates/ContentController.ss b/templates/ContentController.ss
index d581620c..505177a3 100644
--- a/templates/ContentController.ss
+++ b/templates/ContentController.ss
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-<!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" >
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html>
 <!-- very simple template that exists mainly so that edge cases like test execution don't fail -->
 <head>
 	<% base_tag %>
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 	<h1>$Title</h1>
 	$Content
 	$Form
-	
+
 	<p><i>Generated with the default ContentController.ss template</i></p>
 </body>
 </html>
