MEI 2010 to 2012

Transforming the 2010-05 schema version of the Music Encoding Initiative to the 2012 (2.0.0) version.

Contents

• README.md: this file
• createXSLT.xql: XQuery Script to automatically generate MEI-2010to2012.xsl by comparing old and new element (and attribute) names and matching those where only capitalization differs.
• MEI-2010to2012.xsl: XSLT Stylesheet to transform your MEI 2010-05 files to the 2012 (2.0.0) version

Usage

Apply the stylesheet MEI-2010to2012.xsl to your MEI 2010-05 files. Set the parameter $warning to false() if you want to supress all warnings. (Tested with Saxon-HE 9)

Manually modified templates

Elements and attributes from the 2010-05 version that could not be matched automatically are:

• accessdesc
• altmeiid
• blockquote
• clefchange
• exhibithist
• extptr
• extref
• fingerprint
• keychange
• keywords
• pgfoot1
• pghead1
• profiledesc
• treatmenthist
• treatmentsched
• @complete
• @entityref
• @href
• @label.full
• @mediacontent
• @medialength

Thanks to Andrew Hankinson those could be resolved!

Known restrictions

Some content models have changed so you might need to apply further tweaks to your data:

• <altmeiid>: this becomes <altID> with a tighter content model, only allowing <lb>, <rend>, <stack> and text().
• <clefchange>: this becomes <clef> and doesn't support @tstamp, @staff or @layer any longer.
• <fingerprint>: use of <fingerprint> deprecated.
• <profiledesc>: this becomes <workDesc> and thereby introduces a slightly different semantic. All child elements can be matched to their 2012 counterparts, though.

License

This work is available under dual license: BSD 2-Clause and Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC BY 3.0)