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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query>
    <pages>
      <page pageid="1" ns="0" title="Main Page">
        <links>
          <pl ns="0" title="Alternate Data Streams" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Cluster Coherent NFS design" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Connectathon test suite" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Dual-protocol support" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Feature Design Documents" />
          <pl ns="0" title="General troubleshooting recommendations" />
          <pl ns="0" title="High availability SCSI layout" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Introduction to Linux NFS hacking" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Jenkins CI" />
          <pl ns="0" title="NFS and FreeIPA" />
        </links>
      </page>
    </pages>
  </query>
  <query-continue>
    <links plcontinue="1|0|NFS over SoftRoCE setup" />
  </query-continue>
</api>