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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query>
    <allpages>
      <p pageid="1508" ns="0" title="Barbara Liskov" />
      <p pageid="764" ns="0" title="BaseBean" />
      <p pageid="1665" ns="0" title="Becomes problem" />
      <p pageid="377" ns="0" title="Behavioral completeness" />
      <p pageid="1076" ns="0" title="Benjamin&#039;s Design Study" />
      <p pageid="1123" ns="0" title="BenjaminTaylor Previous Design Work" />
      <p pageid="859" ns="0" title="Bertrand&#039;s Design Study" />
      <p pageid="1176" ns="0" title="Bertrand Meyer" />
      <p pageid="664" ns="0" title="Beware accessors" />
      <p pageid="888" ns="0" title="Beware inheritance over composition" />
    </allpages>
  </query>
  <query-continue>
    <allpages apfrom="Beware of many accessors" />
  </query-continue>
</api>