diff --git a/scripts/check-viewer-xml b/scripts/check-viewer-xml
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--- a/scripts/check-viewer-xml
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@@ -1,104 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
-from __future__ import print_function
-import sys
-import os
-import argparse
-import xml.etree.ElementTree as xml
-
-try:
-    from llbase import llsd
-except ImportError:
-    try:
-        from indra.base import llsd
-    except ImportError:
-        sys.exit("""Failed to import python llsd module from llbase or indra.base.
-Try
-   pip install llbase
-or
-   sudo pip install llbase
-""")
-
-def warning(*objs):
-    print(*objs, file=sys.stderr)
-    
-def xml_is_ok(file):
-    # Check that the XML file is well formed.
-    try :
-        elements = xml.parse(file)
-    except IOError as read_error:
-        warning("XML not readable '%s':\n   %s" % (file, read_error))
-        return False
-    except xml.ParseError as parse_error :
-        warning("XML not well-formed '%s':\n   %s" % (file, parse_error.msg))
-        return False
-
-    root = elements.getroot()
-    if root.tag == 'llsd':
-        # if it's LLSD, we should be able to also validate that
-        with open(file, "r") as llsd_file:
-            llsd_content=llsd_file.read()
-        try:
-            llsd.parse(llsd_content)
-        except Exception as validity_error:
-            warning("LLSD not valid '%s':\n   %s" % (file, validity_error))
-            return False
-    elif arg.verbosity == 'verbose':
-        warning("  %s is not a document type that can be validated" % root.tag)
-
-    return True
-
-cmd_line = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Checks all xml files found in viewer settings and cache directories ',
-                                   prog='check-viewer-xml',
-                                   )
-cmd_line.add_argument('directory', nargs='*', default=None,
-                      help='additional directories to check')
-verbosity_options=cmd_line.add_mutually_exclusive_group()
-verbosity_options.add_argument('-v', '--verbose', 
-                        help='verbose output', action='store_const', const='verbose', dest='verbosity')
-verbosity_options.add_argument('-q', '--quiet',
-                    help='output errors only', action='store_const', const='quiet', dest='verbosity', default='normal')
-
-arg = cmd_line.parse_args()
-
-if sys.platform == 'darwin':
-    CheckDirs = [ os.path.expanduser('~/Library/Caches/SecondLife'),
-                  os.path.expanduser('~/Library/Application Support/SecondLife'),
-                  ]
-elif sys.platform == 'linux2':
-    CheckDirs = [ os.path.expanduser('~/.secondlife'),
-                  ]
-elif sys.platform == 'win32' or sys.platform == 'cygwin':  
-    if os.path.isdir(os.path.expanduser('~\\AppData\\Roaming')):
-        CheckDirs = [ os.path.expanduser('~\\Application\\Data\\Secondlife'),
-                      os.path.expanduser('~\\AppData\\Roaming\\Secondlife'),
-                      os.path.expanduser('~\\AppData\\Local\\Secondlife'),
-                      ]
-    else:
-        sys.exit("No AppData\\Roaming directory found;\nThis script must be run in a native Windows command shell.\nRunning under cygwin does not work.")
-else:
-    sys.exit("unrecognized platform '%s'" % sys.platform)
-
-if arg.directory:
-    CheckDirs.extend(arg.directory)
-
-checked_files = 0
-invalid_files = 0
-for root in filter(os.path.isdir, CheckDirs):
-    if arg.verbosity == 'verbose':
-        print("Searching '%s'" % root)
-    for directory, dirs, files in os.walk(root):
-        for file in files:
-            if file.endswith('.xml'):
-                xml_file = os.path.join(directory,file)
-                if arg.verbosity == 'verbose':
-                    print("Checking '%s'" % xml_file)
-                checked_files += 1
-                if not xml_is_ok(xml_file):
-                    invalid_files += 1
-
-if arg.verbosity != 'quiet':
-    print("Checked %d files, %d errors found." % (checked_files, invalid_files))
-
-sys.exit(invalid_files)
-
-