Re: My opinion

[Szabó Árpád Zoltán]

> Pedro:
> I see. data exchanging is allways good, that's for sure. anyone knows
> how is the read/write support for MusicXML in finale, sibelius, and
> others?

Both of the two mentioned can import and export musicXML with Recordare's
"Dolet" plugin (technically the transformer for Sibelius uses macros, so
it's not really a plugin.) And there are a couple other ones. Check
http://www.recordare.com/software.html for others.

Lilypond is also on the list of the ones which can use musicXML as input. I
have to admit that it is only partially true: xml2ly xslt stylesheets
convert between previous versions of both musicXML (somewhere 0.7) and
Lilypond (somewhere 1.7).
A python xml2ly converter (using the python SAX interface) was also built,
with which I successfully converted 2/3 of the musicXML test suite files (by
using convert-ly --from=1.9.3 of course).

> I haven't look at MusicXML in ages, so I don't know how it's doing now.
> i'd curious to know if it saves "tweeks" or just the "basic" data
> representation.

MusicXml is 1.0 now for a year. Michael Good of Recordare actively works on
1.1 in these days. Some of the proposed features are (from the musicXML
mailing list):
harp pedal diagrams
scordatura tunings
fanned beam
color for individual items
etc.etc there are other changes I couldn't get...

For the 1.0 there's a  "MusicXML elements, attributes, and entities in
alphabetical order" - if it makes some sense - at here:
http://www.recordare.com/xml/musicxml-index.html

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Árpád