diff --git a/build/count_scopes.pl b/build/count_scopes.pl
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+++ b/build/count_scopes.pl
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+#!/usr/bin/perl -w
+
+open(XML,"java -cp ../xalan-j_2_6_0/bin/xalan.jar org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process -IN ../xml/ukfederation-metadata-unsigned.xml -XSL extract_scopes.xsl|") || die "could not open input file";
+while (<XML>) {
+	# print $_;
+	chop;
+	my $scope = $_;
+	$scopes{$scope} = 1;
+}
+close XML;
+
+print scalar(keys(%scopes)), "\n";
diff --git a/build/extract_scopes.xsl b/build/extract_scopes.xsl
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+
+	extract_nocert_locs.xsl
+	
+	XSL stylesheet that takes a SAML 2.0 metadata file and extracts
+	a list of scopes used.  Regular expression scopes are ignored.
+	
+	Author: Ian A. Young <ian@iay.org.uk>
+
+-->
+<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
+	xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
+	xmlns:ds="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#"
+	xmlns:shibmeta="urn:mace:shibboleth:metadata:1.0"
+	xmlns:md="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:metadata"
+	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+	xmlns:wayf="http://sdss.ac.uk/2006/06/WAYF"
+	exclude-result-prefixes="shibmeta md ds wayf">
+
+	<!-- Output is plain text -->
+	<xsl:output method="text"/>
+
+	<xsl:template match="//shibmeta:Scope[@regex = 'true']">
+		<!-- do nothing -->
+	</xsl:template>
+	
+	<xsl:template match="//shibmeta:Scope">
+		<xsl:value-of select="."/>
+		<xsl:text>&#x0a;</xsl:text>
+	</xsl:template>
+	
+	<xsl:template match="text()">
+		<!-- do nothing -->
+	</xsl:template>
+</xsl:stylesheet>