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+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
+    <!--
+        redirect html file to make sure the XML documentation gets openend with the default browser
+    -->
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
+<head>
+    <title>AssaultCube</title>
+    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="application/xhtml+xml;charset=utf-8" />
+    <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=docs/README.xml" />
+    <style type="text/css">
+        body
+        {
+            background-color: #343434;
+        }
+    </style>
+</head>
+<body>
+</body>
+</html>