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<api>
  <query-continue>
    <allpages apfrom="Creating a private Network" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <allpages>
      <p pageid="1582" ns="0" title="Bloodspell" />
      <p pageid="1581" ns="0" title="Bloodspell magnets" />
      <p pageid="1407" ns="0" title="Build Phex from Subversion" />
      <p pageid="1618" ns="0" title="Build Phex with Eclipse" />
      <p pageid="1563" ns="0" title="Building the OSX App" />
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      <p pageid="1658" ns="0" title="Concepts" />
      <p pageid="1610" ns="0" title="Conceptual Work" />
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  </query>
</api>