question about lilypond and its representation.

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> Hi,
> 
>   I do semantic web researcher for MINDSWAP
>   <http://www.mindswap.org>, and I'm very interested in using Lilypond
>   for one of my projects.  My central problem however, is that in
>   order for my to use Lilypond within my project, I'd need to have it
>   represented in XML syntax (check out the SVG project on w3.org for an 
> example
>   of a format represented serialized in XML).  Before attempting this
>   daunting task on my own, I was wondering if you guys know of any
>   effort to build such representation of Lilypond, or if you've
>   considered it.  Looking forward to hearing from you.


It depends on what you need exactly. In the current development
series, it is possible to dump an XML-ish representation of the input
(of the music in the inputfile, to be precise), but Lily does not read
it back.

        blauw:~/usr/src/lilypond$ lilypond input/test/to-xml.ly
        lstat(/home/hanwen/bin/usr) failed ...
        /home/hanwen/bin/usr: Onbekend bestand of map
        GNU LilyPond 1.7.0
        Now processing: `input/test/to-xml.ly'
        Parsing...<SequentialMusic>
        <elements><SimultaneousMusic>
        <elements><RequestChord>
        <elements><NoteEvent>
        <duration
           log="2"
           dots="0"
           numer="1"
           denom="1">
        </duration>
        <pitch
           octave="1"
           notename="0"
           alteration="0">
        </pitch>
        </NoteEvent>
        </elements></RequestChord>



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