Anyone know of any libraries that can be used to write MusicXML data from C#? Similar to this: http://proxymusic.kenai.com/ (although this one is for java).
I would try to not write it manually, but if worse comes to worst, I will have no choice but to output and write MusicXML manually from my results.
Since MusicXML has a XML schema available, you can use xsd.exe to create the classes that represent the XML structure:
xsd /c xlink.xsd musicxml.xsd container.xsd opus.xsd
Then you can use XmlSerializer to load and save the generated classes from/to files.
(For some reason, one of the schema files, osfpvg.xsd, wasn't able to compile correctly. Here's hoping you won't need it.)
To use xsd.exe, you can use this command:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools\xsd.exe" "c:\dev\musicxml30\musicxml.xsd" "c:\dev\musicxml30\xlink.xsd" "c:\dev\musicxml30\xml.xsd" /c /o:"c:\dev"
Which will create a file called musicxml_xlink_xml.cs in the c:\dev folder.
For me when i tried to convert the MusicXml3.0.xsd, xsd.exe failed everytime. So, what i did was
xsd.exe musicFile.xml
which generated a schema file, and
xsd.exe musicFile.xsd /classes
which produced the required c# classes. The only thing i had to add in order for the generated xml to be read by programs like Sibelius 7 was to add
<!DOCTYPE score-partwise PUBLIC "-//Recordare//DTD MusicXML 2.0 Partwise//EN" "http://www.musicxml.org/dtds/partwise.dtd">
And presto!
