Re: element UIDs in MusicXML 3.1?

Thanks James, Jeremy, Anthony, and Luca! You offer compelling cases for adding this into MusicXML 3.1. 

I would be interested in hearing Joe's opinion as well, in terms of how this fits into what we want to do in MusicXML 3.1 compared to what we want to do in MNX.

Unfortunately we can't quite do the "every element has an id attribute that is an ID type" proposal without breaking compatibility with earlier MusicXML versions. MusicXML 3.0 already has several commonly-used elements where the id attribute is an IDREF rather than an ID. 

That might be a worthwhile reason to limit this to something closer to James's initial proposal for element coverage, and wait until MNX to make the id attribute truly universal.

Best regards,

Michael Good
VP of MusicXML Technologies
MakeMusic, Inc.

Received on Wednesday, 3 August 2016 16:26:35 UTC