we fixed this bug some time ago. See:
https://github.com/Philomelos/lilypond-musicxml2ly-dev.
http://ubuntuone.com/0iNRBh17UxPJWlVJikFYVD
** 13-1220-li-xuanyi.xml -- The original file from my student, exported from Sibelius on Mac.
$ musicxml2ly 13-1220-li-xuanyi.xml musicxml2ly: Reading MusicXML from 13-1220-li-xuanyi.xml ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lilypond/usr/bin/musicxml2ly", line 2984, in ?
main()
File "/usr/local/lilypond/usr/bin/musicxml2ly", line 2979, in main
voices = convert (filename, options)
File "/usr/local/lilypond/usr/bin/musicxml2ly", line 2881, in convert
score_information = extract_score_information (tree)
File "/usr/local/lilypond/usr/bin/musicxml2ly", line 201, in extract_score_information
set_if_exists ('title', movement_title.get_text ())
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_text'
** 13-1220-li-xuanyi-finale.xml -- Another version, made by importing the original into Finale 2010 and re-exporting to musicxml. This one is fine in musicxml2ly, producing a LilyPond file that compiles successfully (apart from LilyPond complaining about all the collisions that Finale generated…).
LilyPond cannot complain "about all the collisions that Finale generated" because they are not translated. musicxml2ly complains about errors in the xml-file, e.g.:
x2l: warning: Negative skip -41/4 (from position 163/8 to 81/8)
x2l: warning: Negative skip -3/4 (from position 87/8 to 81/8)
x2l: warning: Negative skip -3/4 (from position 87/8 to 81/8)
x2l: warning: Negative skip -3/4 (from position 87/8 to 81/8)
x2l: warning: Negative skip -41/4 (from position 163/8 to 81/8)
x2l: warning: Negative skip -41/4 (from position 41/2 to 41/4)
x2l: warning: Negative skip -5/8 (from position 87/8 to 41/4)
x2l: warning: Negative skip -5/8 (from position 87/8 to 41/4)
x2l: warning: Negative skip -5/8 (from position 87/8 to 41/4)
x2l: warning: Negative skip -41/4 (from position 41/2 to 41/4)
x2l: warning: Negative skip -41/4 (from position 165/8 to 83/8)
x2l: warning: Negative skip -1/2 (from position 87/8 to 83/8)
x2l: warning: Negative skip -1/2 (from position 87/8 to 83/8)
x2l: warning: Negative skip -1/2 (from position 87/8 to 83/8)
x2l: warning: Negative skip -41/4 (from position 165/8 to 83/8)
x2l: warning: Negative skip -41/4 (from position 83/4 to 21/2)
x2l: warning: Negative skip -3/8 (from position 87/8 to 21/2)
x2l: warning: Negative skip -3/8 (from position 87/8 to 21/2)
x2l: warning: Negative skip -3/8 (from position 87/8 to 21/2)
x2l: warning: Negative skip -41/4 (from position 83/4 to 21/2)
x2l: warning: Negative skip -41/4 (from position 167/8 to 85/8)
x2l: warning: Negative skip -1/4 (from position 87/8 to 85/8)
x2l: warning: Negative skip -1/4 (from position 87/8 to 85/8)
x2l: warning: Negative skip -1/4 (from position 87/8 to 85/8)
x2l: warning: Negative skip -41/4 (from position 167/8 to 85/8)
x2l: warning: Negative skip -41/4 (from position 21 to 43/4)
x2l: warning: Negative skip -1/8 (from position 87/8 to 43/4)
x2l: warning: Negative skip -1/8 (from position 87/8 to 43/4)
x2l: warning: Negative skip -1/8 (from position 87/8 to 43/4)
x2l: warning: Negative skip -41/4 (from position 21 to 43/4)
x2l: warning: Negative skip -41/4 (from position 169/8 to 87/8)
x2l: warning: Negative skip -41/4 (from position 169/8 to 87/8)
x2l: warning: Negative skip -41/4 (from position 85/4 to 11)
x2l: warning: Negative skip -41/4 (from position 85/4 to 11)