diff --git a/engine/src/main/java/org/archive/crawler/migrate/MigrateSettings.java b/engine/src/main/java/org/archive/crawler/migrate/MigrateSettings.java
index 88afffc7..251e8692 100644
--- a/engine/src/main/java/org/archive/crawler/migrate/MigrateSettings.java
+++ b/engine/src/main/java/org/archive/crawler/migrate/MigrateSettings.java
@@ -2,8 +2,19 @@ package org.archive.crawler.migrate;
 
 import java.io.File;
 import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
-import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
+import javax.xml.xpath.XPath;
+import javax.xml.xpath.XPathConstants;
+import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory;
+import javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpression;
+import javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpressionException;
+
+import org.archive.crawler.Heritrix;
 import org.w3c.dom.Document;
+import org.w3c.dom.Element;
+import org.w3c.dom.Node;
+import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
+
+import org.archive.crawler.Heritrix;
 
 public class MigrateSettings {
 	
@@ -11,19 +22,20 @@ public class MigrateSettings {
 		
 		File orderXmlFile = new File(args[0]);
 		File newConfigDir = new File(args[1]);
+		// File defaultConfigDir = new File(getResourceAsStream("dist/src/main/conf/jobs"));
 		File defaultConfigDir = new File("dist/src/main/conf/jobs");
 
 		try {
-
+			
 			// copy defaults.xml to configPath
-			File srcDefaultsXml = new File(defaultConfigDir,"defaults.xml");
-			File tgtDefaultsXml = new File(newConfigDir,"defaults.xml");
-			FileUtils.copyFile(srcDefaultsXml, tgtDefaultsXml);
+//			File srcDefaultsXml = new File(defaultConfigDir,"defaults.xml");
+//			File tgtDefaultsXml = new File(newConfigDir,"defaults.xml");
+//			FileUtils.copyFile(srcDefaultsXml, tgtDefaultsXml);
 
 			// copy default profile crawler-beans.xml to configPath
-			File srcCrawlerBeansXml = new File(defaultConfigDir,"profile-crawler-beans.xml");
-			File tgtCrawlerBeansXml = new File(newConfigDir,"crawler-beans.xml");
-			FileUtils.copyFile(srcCrawlerBeansXml, tgtCrawlerBeansXml);
+//			File srcCrawlerBeansXml = new File(defaultConfigDir,"profile-crawler-beans.xml");
+//			File tgtCrawlerBeansXml = new File(newConfigDir,"crawler-beans.xml");
+//			FileUtils.copyFile(srcCrawlerBeansXml, tgtCrawlerBeansXml);
 
 			// parse order XML
 			if (!orderXmlFile.canRead()) {
@@ -31,7 +43,67 @@ public class MigrateSettings {
 						+ orderXmlFile.getAbsolutePath());
 			} else {
 				Document orderXmlDom = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance()
-				.newDocumentBuilder().parse(orderXmlFile);
+					.newDocumentBuilder().parse(orderXmlFile);
+				
+				Element crawlOrder = orderXmlDom.getDocumentElement();
+
+				// (controller) strings
+				NodeList strings = crawlOrder.getElementsByTagName("string");
+				for (int i=0; i<strings.getLength(); i++) {
+					if (strings.item(i).getParentNode().getNodeName() == "controller") {
+						if (strings.item(i).hasAttributes()) {
+							Node s = strings.item(i);
+							System.out.println(s.getParentNode().getNodeName()
+									+ "/"
+									+ s.getNodeName()
+									+ "[" + i + "]" 										
+									+ "@" 
+									+ s.getAttributes().item(0).getNodeName()
+									+ "["
+									+ s.getAttributes().item(0).getNodeValue() 
+									+ "]"
+									+ " = "
+									+ s.getTextContent());
+						}
+					}
+				}
+				
+				// newObjects
+				NodeList newObjects = crawlOrder.getElementsByTagName("newObject");
+				for (int i=0; i<newObjects.getLength(); i++) {
+					if (newObjects.item(i).hasAttributes()) {
+						Node name = newObjects.item(i).getAttributes().getNamedItem("name");
+						
+						// scope
+						if (name.getNodeValue().equalsIgnoreCase("scope")) {
+							String npath = newObjects.item(i).getNodeName()
+							+ "[" + i + "][@" + name.getNodeName() 
+							+ "=\"" + name.getNodeValue() + "\"]";
+							System.out.println("==== DOM search {" + npath + "} ====");
+							NodeList scope = newObjects.item(i).getChildNodes(); 
+							for (int j=0; j<scope.getLength(); j++) {
+								if (scope.item(j).getNodeType() == org.w3c.dom.Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
+									System.out.println("  " + scope.item(j).getNodeName());
+								}
+							}
+						}
+						
+					}
+				}
+				
+				// use Xpath to extract scope node
+		        XPathFactory factory = XPathFactory.newInstance();
+		        XPath xpath = factory.newXPath();
+				String xp = "//controller/newObject[@name=\"scope\"]";
+				System.out.print("==== XPATH {" + xp + "} ====\n");
+	            XPathExpression expr = xpath.compile(xp);
+	            NodeList scope = (NodeList) expr.evaluate(orderXmlDom,XPathConstants.NODE);
+				for (int j=0; j< scope.getLength(); j++) {
+					if (scope.item(j).getNodeType() == org.w3c.dom.Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
+						System.out.println("  " + scope.item(j).getNodeName());
+					}
+				}
+				
 			}
 
 		} catch (Exception e) {