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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <parse title="Winamp Developer Wiki:Sandbox" revid="2197" displaytitle="Winamp Developer Wiki:Sandbox">
    <text xml:space="preserve">&lt;p&gt;This is a practice area for testing edits.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;!-- 
NewPP limit report
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--&gt;

&lt;!-- Saved in parser cache with key winamp_wiki:pcache:idhash:487-0!*!*!*!*!*!* and timestamp 20240416145914
 --&gt;
</text>
    <langlinks />
    <categories />
    <links />
    <templates />
    <images />
    <externallinks />
    <sections />
    <iwlinks />
    <properties />
  </parse>
</api>