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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query>
    <allcategories>
      <c size="0" pages="0" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Automation Scale</c>
      <c size="1" pages="1" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Categorizing templates</c>
      <c size="0" pages="0" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">EL4C</c>
      <c size="1" pages="1" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Escherichia coli</c>
      <c size="1" pages="1" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Extension creation</c>
      <c size="0" pages="0" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Featured User Page</c>
      <c size="4" pages="4" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Help</c>
      <c size="1" pages="1" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Help Editing</c>
      <c size="0" pages="0" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">In vivo</c>
      <c size="2" pages="2" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Info templates</c>
    </allcategories>
  </query>
  <query-continue>
    <allcategories acfrom="Link" />
  </query-continue>
</api>