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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query>
    <search>
      <p ns="0" title="Riven scripts" snippet="Set mouse cursor icon to &#039;&#039;cursor&#039;&#039;, whose &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; is given on the right.&#10;" size="17619" wordcount="2604" timestamp="2009-05-23T17:19:00Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="Riven FLST resources" snippet="FLST resources are very often empty (&lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; no SFXE for that card) or with just one record.&#10;" size="607" wordcount="97" timestamp="2008-02-12T20:18:11Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="Riven NAME resources" snippet="...ffset starting from strings (not from the beginning of resource data). The &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; of &#039;&#039;values[]&#039;&#039; is not yet known, but it seem to go from 0 to &#039;&#039;field_count&#10;" size="1257" wordcount="206" timestamp="2008-02-08T18:42:21Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="Myst VIEW resources" snippet="The variable value is used to index the ID array. IDs can be -1, probably &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; that nothing should be done in that case.&#10;" size="4142" wordcount="648" timestamp="2008-11-03T13:10:54Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="Myst RLST resources" snippet="...y value between 0 and 14 except for 9 has been observed. See below for the &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; of each type.&#10;" size="11276" wordcount="1550" timestamp="2008-10-12T22:14:12Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="Mohawk Sounds" snippet="...e unsigned long value, but values are obscure and I have no idea about its &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt;.&#10;" size="6005" wordcount="991" timestamp="2010-03-10T21:04:58Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="Myst variables" snippet="As a preliminary step, this page lists Myst variable numbers and their &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; to aid the reverse engineering process. This is based on interpretation of &#10;" size="3850" wordcount="550" timestamp="2008-10-22T18:25:19Z" />
    </search>
  </query>
</api>