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    <pages>
      <page pageid="1" ns="0" title="Main Page">
        <links>
          <pl ns="0" title="Changelog" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Cocoa frontend todo" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Faq" />
          <pl ns="0" title="General todo" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Installing DeSmuME from source" />
          <pl ns="0" title="KnowledgeBase" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Linux frontends todo" />
          <pl ns="0" title="List of Nintendo DS games with GBA connectivity" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Manual" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Release 0.5.0" />
        </links>
      </page>
    </pages>
  </query>
  <query-continue>
    <links plcontinue="1|0|Release 0.6.0" />
  </query-continue>
</api>