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<api>
  <query-continue>
    <allcategories gacfrom="List of compositions by Jean Henri Ravina" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <pages>
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      <page ns="14" title="Category:List, Erich/Editor" missing="" />
      <page ns="14" title="Category:List, Franz" missing="" />
      <page ns="14" title="Category:List of Compositions for String Sextet" missing="" />
      <page ns="14" title="Category:List of Compositions for String Trio" missing="" />
      <page ns="14" title="Category:List of Compositions for String Trio?" missing="" />
      <page ns="14" title="Category:List of compositions by Anton Arensky" missing="" />
      <page ns="14" title="Category:List of compositions by Charles Koechlin" missing="" />
      <page ns="14" title="Category:List of compositions by Edward MacDowell" missing="" />
      <page ns="14" title="Category:List of compositions by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" missing="" />
    </pages>
  </query>
</api>