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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query>
    <allusers>
      <u userid="1727" name="Yannik Schädler" />
      <u userid="1761" name="Yash Patel" />
      <u userid="1957" name="Ying Deng" />
      <u userid="1420" name="Yousif Al-Sagheer" />
      <u userid="303" name="Youssef Almulla" />
      <u userid="2017" name="Youssef Sherif" />
      <u userid="1814" name="Yu Jiang" />
      <u userid="1838" name="Yvonne Scholz" />
      <u userid="624" name="Zagdkhorol Bayasgalan" />
      <u userid="2179" name="Zane Selvans" />
    </allusers>
  </query>
  <query-continue>
    <allusers aufrom="Zhi Gao" />
  </query-continue>
</api>