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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query>
    <pages>
      <page pageid="1405" ns="0" title="Main Page">
        <links>
          <pl ns="-1" title="Special:ProfessionalAlertEditor" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Contributor Center" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Storage Customers Seeing Green with Conserve IT" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Storage Peer Incite archive" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Storage community/Calendar &quot;Storage Community&quot; (11-4-08) - Event 1" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Storage community calendar" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Wikibon tutorial" />
          <pl ns="2" title="User:Fmoore" />
          <pl ns="14" title="Category:Announcements" />
          <pl ns="14" title="Category:Capacity management" />
        </links>
      </page>
    </pages>
  </query>
  <query-continue>
    <links plcontinue="1405|14|Email storage" />
  </query-continue>
</api>