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RE: MusicXML 1.1 saving from Sibelius; XML document adoption r

• To: "'Michael Good'" <musicxml@g...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: MusicXML 1.1 saving from Sibelius; XML document adoption rates?
• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 10:51:16 -0000
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 Congratulations. I'm not aware of any such studies. What one can say is that adoption rates vary enormously. In genealogy, XML is nowhere, because no-one wants to move away from an entrenched non-XML standard that meets 80% of the requirement. In other areas, XML support is a sine-qua-non: you can't produce personal taxation software in the UK unless it is capable of filing your tax return electronically. 

 

You're actually looking for two preconditions to an XML standard taking off. First of all, there needs to be some magic that causes a standard to happen, which depends on there being (a) a user need for a standard, and (b) the right market forces in the industry to establish one. Secondly, that standard needs to be XML-based - which is likely to be the case if and only the preconditions for creating a (new) standard arose since 1999 or so.

 

I'm pleased that this appears to have happened in the music area, since at one time there seemed to be so many proposed standards that there was a serious risk they would all fail. There's never any guarantee that just because everyone agrees a standard would be a good thing, it will necessarily happen.

 

Michael Kay

http://www.saxonica.com/

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