Comments on: on using XQuery for the first time http://blog.humaneguitarist.org/2009/09/12/on-using-xquery-for-the-first-time/ discoveries in digital audio, music notation, and information encoding Sun, 01 Jan 2012 13:43:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: nitin http://blog.humaneguitarist.org/2009/09/12/on-using-xquery-for-the-first-time/comment-page-1/#comment-105 nitin Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:15:00 +0000 http://blog.humaneguitarist.org/?p=152#comment-105 The indent option works! The output is well-nested XML now, too. Thanks for the great tip. I haven't formulated my thoughts on MusicXML/Xquery too much, but I'd really like to see digital libraries start OCRing their scanned sheet music and then work toward search capabilities for those collections. Furthermore, I'd like to see a non-textual search interface for querying pitches and patterns, etc. i.e. typing in search queries on a staff line. Maybe advanced searches would require text-based input, but it would be good from the "cool" factor POV to have staff entry for basic queries. So if universities and even open-web projects got underway we could start playing catch-up with the articles repositories. I haven't had much luck running Audiveris https://audiveris.dev.java.net/ but we're gonna need a free, open-source music OCR program if this kind of thing could ever take root on the web. BTW: thanks for being my first commentor! :) Update 091509: jEdit has an XML plug-in with an "Indent XML" command. But it's still likely best to use the indent option while running the query as suggested by the great comment above. The indent option works! The output is well-nested XML now, too. Thanks for the great tip.

I haven’t formulated my thoughts on MusicXML/Xquery too much, but I’d really like to see digital libraries start OCRing their scanned sheet music and then work toward search capabilities for those collections. Furthermore, I’d like to see a non-textual search interface for querying pitches and patterns, etc. i.e. typing in search queries on a staff line. Maybe advanced searches would require text-based input, but it would be good from the “cool” factor POV to have staff entry for basic queries.

So if universities and even open-web projects got underway we could start playing catch-up with the articles repositories. I haven’t had much luck running Audiveris
https://audiveris.dev.java.net/
but we’re gonna need a free, open-source music OCR program if this kind of thing could ever take root on the web.

BTW: thanks for being my first commentor! :)

Update 091509: jEdit has an XML plug-in with an “Indent XML” command. But it’s still likely best to use the indent option while running the query as suggested by the great comment above.

]]> By: lasconic http://blog.humaneguitarist.org/2009/09/12/on-using-xquery-for-the-first-time/comment-page-1/#comment-106 lasconic Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:58:10 +0000 http://blog.humaneguitarist.org/?p=152#comment-106 Nice! For line break, the name is "indent". You can have them right from query.exe I think. Try query test.xquery !indent=yes Out of curiosity, what's your plan with MusicXML and Xquery? Nice!
For line break, the name is “indent”. You can have them right from query.exe I think.
Try
query test.xquery !indent=yes

Out of curiosity, what’s your plan with MusicXML and Xquery?

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