Re: MusicXML

[Urs Liska]

Am Dienstag, den 23.04.2013, 20:45 +0200 schrieb Urs Liska:


Hm, this seems not to be the first time my phone censors my reply
text :-(

What I had written is somewhat like:


> "Christopher R. Maden" <address@hidden> schrieb:
>         I am comfortable with LilyPond, but not quite an expert.
>         
>         I am an expert in XML and XSLT, and it sounds like it would be of
>         benefit to LilyPond to have better support for MusicXML (though I 
> don’t
>         use it myself).
>         
>         Can someone please summarize (or point me to a summary of) the current
>         state of MusicXML support, what needs to be done, and the
>         infrastructure?  E.g., is a standalone XSLT conversion acceptable,

As David (and Mike) pointed out not everything is included in the music
stream, so a XSLT conversion won't be completely sufficient (although
probably a good start and way better than the status quo).

Maybe there would be a way using a (Python?) application that calls
LilyPond to capture the input stream and at the same time parses the
input file(s) to get more information from them.

If there is any chance for making progress with that I'm willing to put
real work in it (as far as my capabilities reach ...).

I think that a Python program might be a good idea:
- I'm sure there is good XML support with Python (don't really know,
though)
- We could surely use code or experience from the musicxml2ly project
- We could probably also use code and ideas from Frescobaldi.

Urs

>          or
>         should MusicXML import/export be integrated into the core LilyPond 
> code?
>         
>         ~Chris
> 
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