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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query-continue>
    <allpages apcontinue="Partitions" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <allpages>
      <p pageid="10" ns="0" title="Basic Commands" />
      <p pageid="2" ns="0" title="Inside an OFED distribution" />
      <p pageid="11" ns="0" title="Learning Infiniband" />
      <p pageid="1" ns="0" title="Main Page" />
      <p pageid="4" ns="0" title="OSM ErrorMsg" />
      <p pageid="5" ns="0" title="OSM PML" />
      <p pageid="6" ns="0" title="OSM PerfManager" />
      <p pageid="3" ns="0" title="OpenSM Logging" />
      <p pageid="7" ns="0" title="OpenStack" />
      <p pageid="9" ns="0" title="Overview of Error Counters" />
    </allpages>
  </query>
</api>