FWIW I didn't spot the error manually. If you run MuseScore from the
command line, it will output a more verbose message with the tag, the line
and the column in the XML file.
This is a good testimonial about why we shouldn't encourage users to edit
MSCX files manually. In most of the cases, it doesn't make sense to apply a
diff and for keeping versions, a mscz file is small enough to don't bother
with storage.
lasconic
2015-05-03 19:22 GMT+02:00 Marc Sabatella <[email protected]>:
> Well, I didn't spot the problem - lasconic did :-)
>
> "Bad format" is, I guess, a type of corruption too, but not one that is
> normally ever seen except when testing broken code :-). Or, I guess,
> sometimes if trying to take a file created in one build and opening it an
> an earlier build that lacks the necessary support for the new construct you
> are testing. We normally use file version numbers to keep this from being
> an issue with actual releases - rather than reporting "bad format",
> MuseScore will simply detect the file is created with a too-new version of
> MuseScore. So if you make a change that will cause older versions of
> MuseScore to not be able to read the file any more, you are supposed to
> bump the version number.
>
> The one type of "bad format" errors we do occasionally see in real life
> has to do with unescaped "&" characters in strings. There are periodically
> bugs where "&" in an instrument name or whatever will get written to the
> file as a literal rather than as an XML entity, and this will result in a
> file that can't be laoded unless you hand-edit the file. One such bug in
> 2.0 was just reported and subsequently fixed within the past week -
> https://musescore.org/en/node/57861.
>
> Marc
>
> On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Jim Newton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> thanks for clearing up the terminology.
>> What do you call it when the file is such that when I try to open it in
>> musescore I get a popup saying:
>> "Cannot read file … bad format"?
>> That is what I was seeing. And yes, you are right. There was a “<"
>> missing in the xml file.
>> It is no doubt my fault. I undoubtedly deleted when I was looking at the
>> file with my editor.
>>
>> You have a clever eye that you can see that so fast.
>>
>> Thanks for the help.
>>
>>
>>
>> > On 03 May 2015, at 19:01, Marc Sabatella [via MuseScore Developer] <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > To be clear, we normally use the word "corruption" to indicate a
>> measure woith the improper number of beats, particularly in voice 1.
>> Something that you can see when you load the score and count the beats.
>> Not sure how running "diff" would be involved; you seem to be referring to
>> something very different from "corruption" in the normal sense. But when I
>> run it, all it shows me it what you just described - you chznged some
>> things in your score. What about that are you consider "corruption"? It
>> won't load because the syntax error in your ornamentStyle tags - I assume
>> that's a result of your experimental code. But if I fix that syntax error
>> in a text editor, it loads just fine, no corruption reported or apparent.
>> >
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