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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query>
    <pages>
      <page pageid="1" ns="0" title="Main Page">
        <links>
          <pl ns="0" title="A short introduction" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Account Management" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Action classes" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Adding Admin Tools" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Adding Jar Files" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Adding and modifying users" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Administration view" />
          <pl ns="0" title="App server related topics" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Authentication per Page" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Available Modules" />
        </links>
      </page>
    </pages>
  </query>
  <query-continue>
    <links plcontinue="1|0|Avoiding /opencms/opencms in the URL (apache + mod proxy)" />
  </query-continue>
</api>