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+<?php
+
+/**
+ * @file
+ * Implementation to display a single Drupal page while offline.
+ *
+ * All the available variables are mirrored in page.tpl.php.
+ *
+ * @see template_preprocess()
+ * @see template_preprocess_maintenance_page()
+ */
+?>
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
+  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="<?php print $language->language; ?>" lang="<?php print $language->language; ?>" dir="<?php print $language->dir; ?>">
+<head>
+  <?php print $head; ?>
+  <title><?php print $head_title; ?></title>
+  <?php print $styles; ?>
+  <?php print $scripts; ?>
+</head>
+<body class="<?php print $classes; ?>" <?php print $attributes;?>>
+
+  <div id="skip-link">
+    <a href="#main-content" class="element-invisible element-focusable"><?php print t('Skip to main content'); ?></a>
+  </div>
+
+  <div id="page-wrapper"><div id="page">
+
+    <div id="header"><div class="section clearfix">
+      <?php if ($site_name || $site_slogan): ?>
+        <div id="name-and-slogan"<?php if ($hide_site_name && $hide_site_slogan) { print ' class="element-invisible"'; } ?>>
+          <?php if ($site_name): ?>
+            <div id="site-name"<?php if ($hide_site_name) { print ' class="element-invisible"'; } ?>>
+              <strong>
+                <a href="<?php print $front_page; ?>" title="<?php print t('Home'); ?>" rel="home"><span><?php print $site_name; ?></span></a>
+              </strong>
+            </div>
+          <?php endif; ?>
+          <?php if ($site_slogan): ?>
+            <div id="site-slogan"<?php if ($hide_site_slogan) { print ' class="element-invisible"'; } ?>>
+              <?php print $site_slogan; ?>
+            </div>
+          <?php endif; ?>
+        </div> <!-- /#name-and-slogan -->
+      <?php endif; ?>
+    </div></div> <!-- /.section, /#header -->
+
+    <div id="main-wrapper"><div id="main" class="clearfix">
+      <div id="content" class="column"><div class="section">
+        <a id="main-content"></a>
+        <?php if ($title): ?><h1 class="title" id="page-title"><?php print $title; ?></h1><?php endif; ?>
+        <?php print $content; ?>
+        <?php if ($messages): ?>
+          <div id="messages"><div class="section clearfix">
+            <?php print $messages; ?>
+          </div></div> <!-- /.section, /#messages -->
+        <?php endif; ?>
+      </div></div> <!-- /.section, /#content -->
+    </div></div> <!-- /#main, /#main-wrapper -->
+
+  </div></div> <!-- /#page, /#page-wrapper -->
+
+</body>
+</html>
