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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query>
    <pages>
      <page pageid="1" ns="0" title="Main Page">
        <links>
          <pl ns="0" title="Blog of a wandering Jerusalem Perl Monger" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Mailing list" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Our last meeting" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Our next meeting" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Previous meetings" />
          <pl ns="4" title="JmPm:Community Portal" />
          <pl ns="14" title="Category:Sample code" />
        </links>
      </page>
    </pages>
  </query>
</api>