Re: MusicXML 3.1 - ready for release?

I am sorry but I just didn't reach what I wanted to do with the testing 
of MusicXML 3.1. But I am working on it.

Using Finale to make new MusicXML-3.1-files seems to bring a common 
problem up again: Finale (and all other programs) does not preserve the 
MusicXML-data. In my case it concerns the time-only attribute for lyrics.

To claim that notation programs should preserve MusicXML is not 
realistic and maybe not even desirably. But this means that some the 
improvements in 3.1 may never be implemented.

My job now is to identify changes, that affects playing. Among these I 
shall identify those, that can be implemented in MIDI. But I do not 
believe this may cause new issues.

I think that MusicXML 3.1 could be finalised, but hope there will come a 
MusicXML version 3.1.1 - if issues appear. It should not end up like 
MIDI - where they forgot a clef-definition and now, thirty years later, 
there is still no clef-definition. (as stated in the book "Beyond MIDI")

So go ahead with 3.1.

Regards
Mogens

PS: I am not using code generation from the XSD yet. Look forward to 
have "fun" with grace-cue-notes.

>> On 23 Aug 2017, at 16:11, Michael Good <mgood@makemusic.com 
>> <mailto:mgood@makemusic.com>> wrote: