Re: producing "archival" scores

[Anthony W. Youngman]

In message <address@hidden>, Kieren 
MacMillan <address@hidden> writes
> > musicXML -> lilypond   is currently done as a python script; python 
> > is a very nice language and is quite easy to learn.
>
> Why is it not in XSLT?
> Even if the performance is worse, it would seem to make more sense from 
> an industry perspective...

As I understand XSLT it is designed to convert from one valid XML 
representation to another valid XML representation.

As such, XSLT is probably useless. Can you write a DTD for lilypond? 
Without it, I don't think you can use XSLT.

Cheers,
Wol
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