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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
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        <page value="2008-03-17 12:04:34+00" timestamp="2008-03-17T12:04:34Z" ns="0" title="Report" />
        <page value="2008-06-24 14:10:48+00" timestamp="2008-06-24T14:10:48Z" ns="0" title="Centre for Language Studies (CLS)" />
        <page value="2008-06-27 09:53:13+00" timestamp="2008-06-27T09:53:13Z" ns="0" title="Noaccess" />
        <page value="2008-07-08 10:09:35+00" timestamp="2008-07-08T10:09:35Z" ns="0" title="Usergroup:allusers" />
        <page value="2008-07-08 12:22:57+00" timestamp="2008-07-08T12:22:57Z" ns="0" title="Usergroup:LabelProject" />
        <page value="2008-12-16 13:30:29+00" timestamp="2008-12-16T13:30:29Z" ns="0" title="Lule Sami reference list" />
        <page value="2009-03-09 11:01:49+00" timestamp="2009-03-09T11:01:49Z" ns="0" title="Morphology of plant names in the Mpiemo language" />
        <page value="2009-03-24 20:08:22+00" timestamp="2009-03-24T20:08:22Z" ns="0" title="Design Suggestions" />
        <page value="2009-04-01 09:14:50+00" timestamp="2009-04-01T09:14:50Z" ns="0" title="Gjennom" />
      </results>
    </querypage>
  </query>
</api>