Microsoft fails to open a Musescore .musicxml file on failure to load your dtds/partwise.dtd

• Nov 16, 2019 - 19:45
Reported version
3.3
Type
Plugins
Frequency
Once
Severity
S3 - Major
Reproducibility
Always
Status
by design
Regression
No
Workaround
Yes
Project
MuseScore
Tags
musicxml

1) Export a score to type .musicxml
2) Attempt to open the score using Microsoft XML Notepad, error message shown in first attachment

Workaround:
remove the reference to the DTD in line 2 between column 80 and 102 as shown in second attachment

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XML Notepad load error.png 22.04 KB
XML Notepad load error workaround.png 21.45 KB

Comments

• Nov 17, 2019 - 08:21
Status active ⇒ by design

The XML header (the first two lines in the file) produced by MuseScore is exactly as prescribed. It is identical to what is produced by Finale in Recordare's sample files.

The reference contained is to http://www.musicxml.org/dtds/partwise.dtd, while the XML Notepad error refers to http://www.musicxml.org/dtds/isolat1.ent (a path not present in the XML file). This strongly suggests the issue is either in XML Notepad or in www.musicxml.org.

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• Nov 17, 2019 - 15:27

I agree the broken reference is likely in one of those two, more likely (hopefully) in musicxml. I am chasing it in that direction also, hoping it's not a Microsoft issue.

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