Comment #5 on issue 665 by v.villenave: Request: MusicXML backend
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=665

New comment from Ralph Little:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2008-11/msg00293.html

"I have been approached by a programmer who is interested in helping me with my
efforts to produce braille output by going the XML approach.[...]

Currently, using Erik's interface method, structure could be exported in a fairly straightforward manner, but positional information from Lilypond's layout engine would be much harder to extract. For the purposes of what we require [for braille conversion], the layout information is not really required. Therefore, we propose to just extract the structure and leave the positional information for a later time. I
think the back-end implementation would be largely the same anyway.

We propose to link to the LGPL MusicXML library if there are no objections:
http://libmusicxml.sourceforge.net

This library is pretty mature and covers all the bases I think."


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