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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query-continue>
    <links plcontinue="1|0|Development_roadmap" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <pages>
      <page pageid="1" ns="0" title="Main Page">
        <links>
          <pl ns="0" title="Add the Bitfighter logo in your levels" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Adding robots while in-game" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Bitfighter Wikipedia Submission" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Building Bitfighter" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Change the delay time for teleporters" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Command line parameters" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Contribute using Mercurial" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Contributors/Credits" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Creating hostile objects" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Creating plugins" />
        </links>
      </page>
    </pages>
  </query>
</api>