diff --git a/common/xml_cleanup.py b/common/xml_cleanup.py
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-#!/usr/bin/env python
-
-"""
-Victor's xml cleanup script.  A big pile of useful hacks.  Do not use
-without carefully reading the code and deciding that this is what you want.
-
-In particular, the remove-meta option is only intended to be used after pulling out a policy
-using the metadata_to_json management command.
-"""
-
-import os
-import fnmatch
-import re
-import sys
-from lxml import etree
-from collections import defaultdict
-
-INVALID_CHARS = re.compile(r"[^\w.-]")
-
-
-def clean(value):
-    """
-    Return value, made into a form legal for locations
-    """
-    return re.sub('_+', '_', INVALID_CHARS.sub('_', value))
-
-
-# category -> set of url_names for that category that we've already seen
-used_names = defaultdict(set)
-
-
-def clean_unique(category, name):
-    cleaned = clean(name)
-    if cleaned not in used_names[category]:
-        used_names[category].add(cleaned)
-        return cleaned
-    x = 1
-    while cleaned + str(x) in used_names[category]:
-        x += 1
-
-    # Found one!
-    cleaned = cleaned + str(x)
-    used_names[category].add(cleaned)
-    return cleaned
-
-
-def cleanup(filepath, remove_meta):
-    # Keys that are exported to the policy file, and so
-    # can be removed from the xml afterward
-    to_remove = ('format', 'display_name',
-                 'graceperiod', 'showanswer', 'rerandomize',
-                 'start', 'due', 'graded', 'hide_from_toc',
-                 'ispublic', 'xqa_key')
-
-    try:
-        print "Cleaning {0}".format(filepath)
-        with open(filepath) as f:
-            parser = etree.XMLParser(remove_comments=False)
-            xml = etree.parse(filepath, parser=parser)
-    except:
-        print "Error parsing file {0}".format(filepath)
-        return
-
-    for node in xml.iter(tag=etree.Element):
-        attrs = node.attrib
-        if 'url_name' in attrs:
-            used_names[node.tag].add(attrs['url_name'])
-        if 'name' in attrs:
-            # Replace name with an identical display_name, and a unique url_name
-            name = attrs['name']
-            attrs['display_name'] = name
-            attrs['url_name'] = clean_unique(node.tag, name)
-            del attrs['name']
-
-        if 'url_name' in attrs and 'slug' in attrs:
-            print "WARNING: {0} has both slug and url_name".format(node)
-
-        if ('url_name' in attrs and 'filename' in attrs and
-                len(attrs) == 2 and attrs['url_name'] == attrs['filename']):
-            # This is a pointer tag in disguise.  Get rid of the filename.
-            print 'turning {0}.{1} into a pointer tag'.format(node.tag, attrs['url_name'])
-            del attrs['filename']
-
-        if remove_meta:
-            for attr in to_remove:
-                if attr in attrs:
-                    del attrs[attr]
-
-    with open(filepath, "w") as f:
-        f.write(etree.tostring(xml))
-
-
-def find_replace(directory, filePattern, remove_meta):
-    for path, dirs, files in os.walk(os.path.abspath(directory)):
-        for filename in fnmatch.filter(files, filePattern):
-            filepath = os.path.join(path, filename)
-            cleanup(filepath, remove_meta)
-
-
-def main(args):
-    usage = "xml_cleanup [dir] [remove-meta]"
-    n = len(args)
-    if n < 1 or n > 2 or (n == 2 and args[1] != 'remove-meta'):
-        print usage
-        return
-
-    remove_meta = False
-    if n == 2:
-        remove_meta = True
-
-    find_replace(args[0], '*.xml', remove_meta)
-
-
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-    main(sys.argv[1:])