partwise.dtd not reachable because musicxml.org is down

• Jan 10, 2023 - 08:06

We just found that musicxml.org has been down for quite some time now, which keeps us from parsing musicxml's exported from MuseScore because the required partwise.dtd and its references cannot be found.

Comments

Jojo-Schmitz

• Jan 10, 2023 - 09:13

What about using https://github.com/w3c/musicxml/blob/v4.0/schema/partwise.dtd instead?

That BTW claims:

    The DTD version of the MusicXML format is deprecated
    as of Version 4.0. Use the musicxml.xsd W3C XML Schema
    definition instead.

Which is at https://github.com/w3c/musicxml/blob/v4.0/schema/musicxml.xsd

Alexees

• Jan 10, 2023 - 09:46

Yes, we can try that.
But even the latest MuseScore Version 3.x exports with the deprecated dtd version

Jojo-Schmitz

• Jan 10, 2023 - 09:56

Yes, I know... Mu4 too

Jojo-Schmitz

• Jan 10, 2023 - 09:59

Now reported in https://github.com/w3c/musicxml/issues/480

Jojo-Schmitz

• Jan 10, 2023 - 10:18

And got a first answer there:

This might sound ironic, but I believe that the URL in a DOCTYPE definition exists only for uniquely identifying a resource. It does not have to resolve to an actual address. That's always been an odd and confusing part of XML in some ways (though in the same boat, Recordare hasn't existed as an independent organization since MakeMusic bought the MusicXML rights and then later released them to W3C) but it's been a part of the specification for some time.

I will try to make it so that 4.1's preferred DOCTYPE resolves to a URL that actually exists, pointing to the .xsd definition in all cases.

And I will try to see if MakeMusic can get musicxml.org back up or if they're willing to transfer the domain name.