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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query>
    <allcategories>
      <c size="1" pages="1" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Calendar templates</c>
      <c size="2" pages="2" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Date-computing templates</c>
      <c size="2" pages="2" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Date mathematics templates</c>
      <c size="1" pages="1" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Exclude in print</c>
      <c size="1" pages="1" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">ISO language templates</c>
      <c size="1" pages="1" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Internal link templates</c>
      <c size="4" pages="4" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Interwiki link templates</c>
      <c size="3" pages="3" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Main Page</c>
      <c size="1" pages="1" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Mathematical time and date function templates</c>
      <c size="3" pages="3" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Subtemplates of Template Encode</c>
    </allcategories>
  </query>
  <query-continue>
    <allcategories acfrom="Table and column templates" />
  </query-continue>
</api>