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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query-continue>
    <alllinks galcontinue="CSSPseudoMatcher|1893" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <pages>
      <page pageid="3" ns="0" title="Script Catalog" />
      <page pageid="5" ns="0" title="ScriptCatalog" />
      <page pageid="1558" ns="0" title="Creating Scenes for Curio" />
      <page pageid="1571" ns="0" title="World Scripting Reference" />
      <page pageid="1792" ns="0" title="Bot Global" />
      <page pageid="1796" ns="0" title="JavaScript Component Globals" />
      <page pageid="1893" ns="0" title="DOM Utility Types" />
      <page pageid="2167" ns="0" title="CSSMatcher" />
      <page pageid="2168" ns="0" title="CSSPseudoMatcher" />
      <page pageid="2201" ns="0" title="Game Cloud" />
    </pages>
  </query>
</api>