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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"><sitemap>
+<loc>https://explore.openaire.eu/project1.xml.gz</loc>
+</sitemap>
+</sitemapindex>