Hi, I'm having a small problem with mod_rewrite

I have the following in my .htacces:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.+)\.htm$ index.php?name=$1 [NC]

This is my index.php file:

<?php echo $_GET['name]; ?>

This works great for the following url:

www.mySite.com/this is an example.htm

this would display "this is an example"

What i'm trying to do however, is get it to do the same, without the .htm extension: for example:

www.mySite.com/this is an example

Any ideas?

(dont think it's relevant but i'm using xampp to test this)