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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query>
    <querypage name="Ancientpages">
      <results>
        <page value="20130515104713" timestamp="2013-05-15T10:47:13Z" ns="0" title="Get List" />
        <page value="20130522093035" timestamp="2013-05-22T09:30:35Z" ns="0" title="Get Attachment MD5 Sum" />
        <page value="20130806123337" timestamp="2013-08-06T12:33:37Z" ns="0" title="Get Asset" />
        <page value="20131009092124" timestamp="2013-10-09T09:21:24Z" ns="0" title="Java" />
        <page value="20131114153614" timestamp="2013-11-14T15:36:14Z" ns="0" title="Job Process Information" />
        <page value="20131114154151" timestamp="2013-11-14T15:41:51Z" ns="0" title="Datetime Formats" />
        <page value="20140623145539" timestamp="2014-06-23T14:55:39Z" ns="0" title="Get Jobs For Today" />
        <page value="20140901143219" timestamp="2014-09-01T14:32:19Z" ns="0" title="Portal Paste Items" />
        <page value="20140904103246" timestamp="2014-09-04T10:32:46Z" ns="0" title="Workflow" />
        <page value="20140904131329" timestamp="2014-09-04T13:13:29Z" ns="0" title="Top level workflow attributes" />
      </results>
    </querypage>
  </query>
  <query-continue>
    <querypage qpoffset="10" />
  </query-continue>
</api>