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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query>
    <allcategories>
      <c size="1" pages="1" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">' .. cat .. '</c>
      <c size="14" pages="14" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Archived Articles</c>
      <c size="0" pages="0" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Archives</c>
      <c size="10" pages="1" files="9" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">BSD images</c>
      <c size="1" pages="1" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Benutzer</c>
      <c size="0" pages="0" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Bloggers</c>
      <c size="1" pages="1" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Box templates</c>
      <c size="0" pages="0" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Candidate for account deletion</c>
      <c size="0" pages="0" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Candidate for deletion</c>
      <c size="0" pages="0" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Candidate for page deletion</c>
    </allcategories>
  </query>
  <query-continue>
    <allcategories acfrom="Categories" />
  </query-continue>
</api>