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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query>
    <search>
      <p ns="0" title="NetIQ Access Manager" snippet="...his may have &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; internal to NetIQ Access Manager but it does not have &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; to any other product, and it is not the correct SAML usage.&#10;" size="5450" wordcount="804" timestamp="2015-08-03T19:44:29Z" />
    </search>
  </query>
</api>