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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query>
    <allcategories>
      <c size="0" pages="0" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Article Feedback Blacklist</c>
      <c size="1" pages="1" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Common law</c>
      <c size="1" pages="1" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Contract law</c>
      <c size="1" pages="1" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Law navigational boxes</c>
      <c size="1" pages="0" files="0" subcats="1" xml:space="preserve">Law templates</c>
      <c size="1" pages="1" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Legal doctrines and principles</c>
      <c size="1" pages="1" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Legal history</c>
      <c size="3" pages="3" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Pages with broken file links</c>
      <c size="1" pages="0" files="0" subcats="1" xml:space="preserve">Social science and society navigational boxes</c>
      <c size="2" pages="2" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Wikipedia geographic image maps</c>
    </allcategories>
  </query>
</api>