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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query>
    <allcategories>
      <c size="1" pages="1" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Books</c>
      <c size="0" pages="0" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Cave Inventory</c>
      <c size="203" pages="200" files="0" subcats="3" xml:space="preserve">Cave inventory</c>
      <c size="2" pages="2" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Exclude in print</c>
      <c size="2" pages="0" files="0" subcats="2" xml:space="preserve">Hidden categories</c>
      <c size="6" pages="6" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Needs description</c>
      <c size="20" pages="20" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Needs image</c>
      <c size="37" pages="37" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Needs references</c>
      <c size="0" pages="0" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Trip Reports 2011</c>
      <c size="8" pages="0" files="0" subcats="8" xml:space="preserve">Trip reports</c>
    </allcategories>
  </query>
  <query-continue>
    <allcategories acfrom="Trip reports 2010" />
  </query-continue>
</api>