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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query-continue>
    <logevents lecontinue="20160422055634|1069" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <logevents>
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      </item>
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        <patrol cur="1232" prev="1229" auto="1" />
      </item>
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        <move new_ns="0" new_title="Extension less URLs and custom error pages" />
      </item>
      <item logid="1076" ns="0" title="Main Page" pageid="1" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Mazhar" timestamp="2016-08-24T06:49:25Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="1229" prev="1228" auto="1" />
      </item>
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        <patrol cur="1228" prev="1225" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="1074" ns="0" title="Extensionless URLs and custom error pages" pageid="265" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Mazhar" timestamp="2016-08-24T06:48:05Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="1227" prev="1226" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="1073" ns="0" title="Extensionless URLs and custom error pages" pageid="265" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Mazhar" timestamp="2016-08-24T06:42:31Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="1226" prev="0" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="1072" ns="0" title="Main Page" pageid="1" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Mazhar" timestamp="2016-08-24T06:21:34Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="1225" prev="1221" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="1071" ns="0" title="AbleCommerce Gold Web Api" pageid="254" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Naveed" timestamp="2016-04-22T12:32:57Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="1224" prev="1220" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="1070" ns="0" title="Custom Field Collections for All Entities" pageid="263" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Mazhar" timestamp="2016-04-22T09:52:48Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="1223" prev="1222" auto="1" />
      </item>
    </logevents>
  </query>
</api>