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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query-continue>
    <alllinks galcontinue="Black_bean_curry|439" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <pages>
      <page pageid="10" ns="0" title="Ubuntu configuration tasks" />
      <page pageid="30" ns="0" title="Tomcat Stuff" />
      <page pageid="50" ns="0" title="HTML Links" />
      <page pageid="64" ns="0" title="SQL Server 2008" />
      <page pageid="67" ns="0" title="C" />
      <page pageid="86" ns="0" title="Solaris" />
      <page pageid="236" ns="0" title="Source code and projects from JavaFX 8 book" />
      <page pageid="439" ns="0" title="Recipes" />
      <page pageid="472" ns="0" title="Coursera html/css course" />
      <page pageid="562" ns="0" title="Red Hat 7 Configuration Tasks" />
    </pages>
  </query>
</api>