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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query>
    <pages>
      <page pageid="11675" ns="0" title="Main Page">
        <links>
          <pl ns="2" title="User:Abhay Ashtekar" />
          <pl ns="2" title="User:Alessandra Celletti" />
          <pl ns="2" title="User:Anil Seth" />
          <pl ns="2" title="User:B. Lungsi Sharma" />
          <pl ns="2" title="User:Carlo Rovelli" />
          <pl ns="2" title="User:Dima Shepelyansky" />
          <pl ns="2" title="User:Ehud Ahissar" />
          <pl ns="2" title="User:Eugene M. Izhikevich" />
          <pl ns="2" title="User:Gabriel Kotliar" />
          <pl ns="2" title="User:James Meiss" />
        </links>
      </page>
    </pages>
  </query>
  <query-continue>
    <links plcontinue="11675|2|Jean-Yves Vinet" />
  </query-continue>
</api>