diff --git a/xwords4/android/scripts/strings_check.sh b/xwords4/android/scripts/strings_check.sh
index 574a110df..c0ef48078 100755
--- a/xwords4/android/scripts/strings_check.sh
+++ b/xwords4/android/scripts/strings_check.sh
@@ -15,7 +15,17 @@ usage() {
 
 list_ids() {
     XML_FILE=$1
-    xmlstarlet sel -T -t -m "/resources/string" -v @name -o " " $XML_FILE
+    xmlstarlet sel -T -t -m "/resources/string" -v @name -n $XML_FILE
+}
+
+list_pairs() {
+    XML_FILE=$1
+    #xmlstarlet sel -t -m "//string" -v @name -o ':' -v . -n $XML_FILE | tr -d '\n' | sed 's,  *, ,g'
+    for NAME in $(list_ids $XML_FILE); do
+        xmlstarlet sel -t -m "//string[@name='$NAME']" -v @name -o ':' -v . $XML_FILE \
+            | tr -d '\n' | sed 's,  *, ,g'
+        echo ""
+    done
 }
 
 while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do