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This is a sample of the API response to an OpenSearch for civil war in RSS format with MLA citations. 

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<title>OCLC Worldcat Search: civil war</title> 
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<title>For whom the bell tolls.</title> 
<author>
<name>Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.</name> 
</author>
<link>http://worldcat.org/oclc/285606</link> 
<guid>http://worldcat.org/oclc/285606</guid> 
<content:encoded><p class="citation_style_MLA">Hemingway, Ernest. <u>For Whom the Bell Tolls</u>. New York: Scribner, 1940. </p></content:encoded> 
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<dc:identifier>urn:ISBN:9787777777779</dc:identifier> 
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<title>This republic of suffering : death and the American Civil War</title> 
<author>
<name>Faust, Drew Gilpin.</name> 
</author>
<link>http://worldcat.org/oclc/123232283</link> 
<guid>http://worldcat.org/oclc/123232283</guid> 
<content:encoded><p class="citation_style_MLA">Faust, Drew Gilpin. <u>This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War</u>. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. </p></content:encoded> 
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<title>I'll pass for your comrade : women soldiers in the Civil War</title> 
<author>
<name>Silvey, Anita.</name> 
</author>
<link>http://worldcat.org/oclc/225870878</link> 
<guid>http://worldcat.org/oclc/225870878</guid> 
<content:encoded><p class="citation_style_MLA">Silvey, Anita. <u>I'll Pass for Your Comrade: Women Soldiers in the Civil War</u>. New York: Clarion Books, 2008. </p></content:encoded> 
<dc:identifier>urn:ISBN:9780618574919</dc:identifier> 
<dc:identifier>urn:ISBN:0618574913</dc:identifier> 
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<item>
<title>Civil War</title> 
<author>
<name>Stanchak, John E.</name> 
</author>
<link>http://worldcat.org/oclc/43487214</link> 
<guid>http://worldcat.org/oclc/43487214</guid> 
<content:encoded><p class="citation_style_MLA">Stanchak, John E. <u>Civil War</u>. DK eyewitness books. New York: Dorling Kindersley Pub, 2000. </p></content:encoded> 
<dc:identifier>urn:ISBN:078946988X</dc:identifier> 
<dc:identifier>urn:ISBN:9780789469885</dc:identifier> 
<dc:identifier>urn:ISBN:0789463024</dc:identifier> 
<dc:identifier>urn:ISBN:9780789463029</dc:identifier> 
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<title>The slaves' war : the Civil War in the words of former slaves</title> 
<author>
<name>Ward, Andrew, 1946-</name> 
</author>
<link>http://worldcat.org/oclc/191732263</link> 
<guid>http://worldcat.org/oclc/191732263</guid> 
<content:encoded><p class="citation_style_MLA">Ward, Andrew. <u>The Slaves' War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves</u>. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 2008. </p></content:encoded> 
<dc:identifier>urn:ISBN:9780618634002</dc:identifier> 
<dc:identifier>urn:ISBN:0618634002</dc:identifier> 
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<title>The Judas Field : a novel of the Civil War</title> 
<author>
<name>Bahr, Howard, 1946-</name> 
</author>
<link>http://worldcat.org/oclc/62381518</link> 
<guid>http://worldcat.org/oclc/62381518</guid> 
<content:encoded><p class="citation_style_MLA">Bahr, Howard. <u>The Judas Field: A Novel of the Civil War</u>. New York: H. Holt, 2006. </p></content:encoded> 
<dc:identifier>urn:ISBN:0805067396</dc:identifier> 
<dc:identifier>urn:ISBN:9780805067392</dc:identifier> 
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<title>This mighty scourge : perspectives on the Civil War</title> 
<author>
<name>McPherson, James M.</name> 
</author>
<link>http://worldcat.org/oclc/74915689</link> 
<guid>http://worldcat.org/oclc/74915689</guid> 
<content:encoded><p class="citation_style_MLA">McPherson, James M. <u>This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War</u>. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. </p></content:encoded> 
<dc:identifier>urn:ISBN:9780195313666</dc:identifier> 
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<title>Under siege! : three children at the Civil War battle for Vicksburg</title> 
<author>
<name>Warren, Andrea.</name> 
</author>
<link>http://worldcat.org/oclc/191090259</link> 
<guid>http://worldcat.org/oclc/191090259</guid> 
<content:encoded><p class="citation_style_MLA">Warren, Andrea. <u>Under Siege!: Three Children at the Civil War Battle for Vicksburg</u>. New York: Melanie Kroupa Books, 2009. </p></content:encoded> 
<dc:identifier>urn:ISBN:9780374312558</dc:identifier> 
<dc:identifier>urn:ISBN:0374312559</dc:identifier> 
<oclcterms:recordIdentifier>191090259</oclcterms:recordIdentifier> 
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<item>
<title>The Civil War.</title> 
<author>
<name>Jordan, Robert Paul.</name> 
</author>
<link>http://worldcat.org/oclc/1034667</link> 
<guid>http://worldcat.org/oclc/1034667</guid> 
<content:encoded><p class="citation_style_MLA">Jordan, Robert Paul. <u>The Civil War</u>. [Washington]: National Geographic Society, 1969. </p></content:encoded> 
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<title>First lady of the Confederacy : Varina Davis's Civil War</title> 
<author>
<name>Cashin, Joan E.</name> 
</author>
<link>http://worldcat.org/oclc/64625034</link> 
<guid>http://worldcat.org/oclc/64625034</guid> 
<content:encoded><p class="citation_style_MLA">Cashin, Joan E. <u>First Lady of the Confederacy: Varina Davis's Civil War</u>. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006. </p></content:encoded> 
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