On 26 Mar 2004, at 16:23, Richard Robinson wrote:
There's a small error in the example files on your webpage: the DOCTYPE tags refer to local file:// URLS, which won't work on other computers.
That's be the "file:/c:/Program Files/MusicXML/partwise.dtd" bit ? It
doesn't work on mine, either. But it doesn't seem to stop things doing
what they should - perhaps because I have a permanent net onnection so
the external DTD reference can be used. Did it stop you being abe to
use/render the files ? My processor also seems able to process without
validation, which seems to stop it trying to use either (so the complaints
go away). I did say the converter I'm using isn't perfect. But from the
responses so far, it seems to be the only one. That's disappointing.
You haven't actually included the external DTD reference. In place of
the "file:/c:/Program Files/MusicXML/partwise.dtd" you should use
"http://www.musicxml.org/dtds/partwise.dtd";, then it should work for anybody
who has an internet connection. The original file:// specification will
only work if you happen to have a disk named c with the appropriate file
on it.
Tried it on my Mac with three different browsers:
Internet Explorer objected to that file reference; if I download the file and
change it as above, IE downloads all the DTDs, but then just displays the source.
Safari gave this, so it's clearly trying:
the Female Rake abc2xml 2004-03-23 Richard Robinson <URL:http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/Info/RRTuneBk/contact.html> Jig England 960 2 major 6 8 G 2 A 4 480 eighth D 5 480 eighth begin
etc.
iCab opened the source.
You can, of course download the source and import it with BarFly, but I noticed
a snag here too. Safari downloads the file as untyped, and BarFly won't recognise
it as a text file. Curiously, if you change the file extension to ".txt" it
works fine. (One more little thing to fix.)
Phil Taylor
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