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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query-continue>
    <links plcontinue="1|0|Ultimate_Guide_to_Gideros_Studio" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <pages>
      <page pageid="1" ns="0" title="Main Page">
        <links>
          <pl ns="0" title="3rd Party Applications" />
          <pl ns="0" title="APK Expansion Files" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Code of Conduct" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Deployment" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Gideros plugins" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Installing Gideros Studio" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Menu shortcuts and accelerators" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Release notes" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Running Gideros Studio under Linux" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Showing Status Bar" />
        </links>
      </page>
    </pages>
  </query>
</api>