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+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
+        "http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xhtml1-20000126/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
+        <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+        <head>
+<script src="http://openlayers.org/api/OpenLayers.js"></script>
+</head>
+<body>
+  <div style="width:100%; height:500px" id="map"></div>
+  <script defer="defer" type="text/javascript">
+    var map = new OpenLayers.Map('map');
+    var wms = new OpenLayers.Layer.WMS( "OpenLayers WMS", 
+        "http://labs.metacarta.com/wms/vmap0", {layers: 'basic'} );
+    map.addLayer(wms);
+    map.zoomToFullExtent();
+  </script>
+</body>
+</html>
