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A beta of my favorite music editor, Guitar Pro, is there. Cool. Music got me into markup. Nice to see it thriving. Again, XML does not care. Namespaces make it care. There should be a policy for the use of force. Asserted: a) In mission critical applications that must interoperate for the public good, it is better that force be applied top down to ensure systems interoperate. Innovative responses must conform to public policy. b) In systems where innovation is realistically possible and there are no real time or near real time requirements for interoperation that compromise the public good, force should come bottom up from the community of users and vendors. That the author of the article cannot tell a true history of XML or distinguish among the requirements for use of force means we still have a long way to go educating developers, users, and media pundits about the best policies for the lifecycles of markup applications. len From: Michael Good [mailto:musicxml@y...] > Once again, it is the XML Tower of Babble! And one of the examples in the CNet article, music notation, is not true. While there are indeed many music notation XML projects on the Web, all of the implementations in real products are using MusicXML. This includes the two market leaders, Finale and Sibelius. And now Finale can read and write MusicXML on Macintosh OS X as well as Windows. More information on MusicXML is available at: http://www.musicxml.org/xml.html
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