Re: MNX Proposal Overview

Hi,

regarding the compatibility with MusicXML (paragraph 1.3), is it 
currently the plan that the machine translation both from MusicXML to 
MNX and from MNX to MusicXML can be fully done via XSLT? If so, will 
such an XSLT be released together with the MNX standard?

Pavel


On 2017-03-20 13:39, Joe Berkovitz wrote:
> Good morning all,
>
> I am pleased to share with you an initial draft of a proposal for MNX.
> The co-chairs hope this will be a useful starting point for the next
> revision of this group's music notation standard. We look forward to
> fruitful discussions on this list, as well as in person in Frankfurt for
> those who are able to join us in April.
>
> This has been a long time in preparation -- far too long, I am sure --
> and I have little by way of excuse, even accounting for the unrelated
> work on my plate. However, this pause in output has at least given me
> the chance to think about the ideas presented here.
>
> The phrase "starting point" is appropriate, as this document is still in
> a formative state. While some of the solutions may survive to a later
> stage of work, right now its purpose is to stimulate discussion by
> placing something concrete in front of us to examine and debate. Indeed,
> the co-chairs are not agreed on every element of the proposal, and much
> less would we expect agreement from the community group at large.
>
> To that end, the document also seeks to capture conflicting points of
> view and alternate possibilities, which are noted as issues called out
> within the proposal. Rather than using specification language, the
> proposal relies on examples, to better allow experimentation with
> various answers to problems.
>
> You can find this document at:
>
> https://w3c.github.io/mnx/overview/ <https://w3c.github.io/mnx/overview/>
>
> The use cases formerly on the wiki have also been moved from the wiki,
> to better track their concordance with the emerging description of MNX:
>
> https://w3c.github.io/mnx/use-cases/
>
> After an initial round of mailing list discussion, we will later move to
> using Github issues to track various points. The github repo is
> at https://github.com/w3c/mnx/ for version control details.
>
> For now, the chairs look forward to some vigorous and positive exchanges
> of views on the public-music-notation-contrib@w3.org
> <mailto:public-music-notation-contrib@w3.org> list! Please do use this
> contributor list for all discussion, in order to affirm that your
> contributions conform to the W3C IP policy.
>
> Best,
>
> .            .       .    .  . ...Joe
>
> Joe Berkovitz
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