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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<api>
  <query>
    <pages>
      <page pageid="1" ns="0" title="Main Page">
        <links>
          <pl ns="0" title="Email" />
          <pl ns="0" title="General UNIX info" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Hardware" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Life In and Around Princeton" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Life in Peyton Hall and On Princeton&#039;s Campus" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Mac Info" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Other Academic Information" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Peyton Hall Network DOs and DON&#039;Ts" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Printing" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Requesting assistance" />
        </links>
      </page>
    </pages>
  </query>
  <query-continue>
    <links plcontinue="1|0|Software" />
  </query-continue>
</api>