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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query>
    <pages>
      <page pageid="1" ns="0" title="Main Page">
        <links>
          <pl ns="0" title="Advice" />
          <pl ns="0" title="African countries 1" />
          <pl ns="0" title="African countries 2" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Akosombo Dam" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Arithmetics training" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Barb Briggs" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Computer donation by Mr Ernest Okrah" />
          <pl ns="0" title="English alphabet" />
          <pl ns="0" title="English plural exceptions" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Ernest Okrah" />
        </links>
      </page>
    </pages>
  </query>
  <query-continue>
    <links plcontinue="1|0|Frantisek Korbel" />
  </query-continue>
</api>