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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query>
    <allcategories>
      <c size="0" pages="0" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">1943 births</c>
      <c size="0" pages="0" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">19th century</c>
      <c size="0" pages="0" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">20th century</c>
      <c size="0" pages="0" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">21st century</c>
      <c size="0" pages="0" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">American computer scientists</c>
      <c size="0" pages="0" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">American engineers</c>
      <c size="1" pages="1" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Botnets</c>
      <c size="0" pages="0" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Carbon finance</c>
      <c size="0" pages="0" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">China–Japan relations</c>
      <c size="0" pages="0" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Climate change</c>
    </allcategories>
  </query>
  <query-continue>
    <allcategories acfrom="Climate change feedbacks and causes" />
  </query-continue>
</api>