Re: MusicXML 3.1 - ready for release?

I'm sorry, but I personally am not clear on what MusicXML data is not being
preserved. Could you please provide an example file?

On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 2:02 PM, mogens@lundholm.org <mogens@lundholm.org>
wrote:

> 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> wrote:
>
>