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<?xml version="1.0"?>
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      </item>
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      </item>
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      </item>
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      </item>
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      </item>
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        <patrol cur="91" prev="0" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="91" ns="0" title="Hauptseite" pageid="5" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Hwe" timestamp="2016-03-16T21:42:39Z" comment="">
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      </item>
      <item logid="90" ns="0" title="Hauptseite" pageid="5" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Hwe" timestamp="2016-03-16T21:42:01Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="89" prev="44" auto="1" />
      </item>
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      </item>
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  </query>
</api>