Trouble with a Dorico XML export

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I’m trying to open a Dorico-export XML file for brass quintet in Musescore (a shortcut on the way to creating a video score). It’s not going well.
First Musescore tells me it’s not a valid XML file. The detail: “Fatal error: Line 222 column 69 Element direction contains unknown attribute system.”
I tell Musescore to ignore the problem. Then it tells me the file is corrupted. Detail: “Measure 1, staff 2 incomplete, Expected: 4/4; Found 0/1” continuing through staffs 3,4 and 5, and through every measure of the piece.
I tell Musescore to ignore the problem. What appears when I open it is the staff system for the entire quintet, but only the Trumpet 1 part shows, and it’s truncated a few measures from the end.
I performed the same drill with another Dorico quintet file. I got the same “invalid” message to begin, but when I told Musescore to ignore it, the file opened properly and completely.
Anybody have a clue?
Thanks.
Will

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Dorico’s XML is usually pretty “to spec”. Can you upload the XML file here?

Sounds like it’s describing a pickup bar. Do you have red time sig signposts on every bar?

Have you tried importing it back into Dorico? (Just to see if Dorico also rejects the data, or doesn’t.)

Was this file itself an XML import into Dorico from something else?

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The file originated in Dorico. (This may be important: It was my first attempt at using the program, so I may have inadvertently burdened the file with all kinds of false starts.)

I imported it back to Dorico as you suggested. It came through, but with an inexplicable extra 25 bars loaded at the beginning.

Here’s the XML file.

Thanks for any help you can give.

Will

(Attachment When I Fall In Love - Full score - 01 Flow 1.musicxml is missing)

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The attachment didn’t come through – you may have to upload it via the webpage, rather than email.

The project itself might also bear some fruit. If you don’t want to share it publically, then PM me. But I’d make sure that the time sigs are all in order.

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Here’s the project file. Steinberg rejected it for reasons that are not quite clear.

I’m not sure I’d know what to look for to check the time sigs. I don’t think I changed it after the start.

Again, thanks for doing this.

Will

(attachments)

When I Fall In Love.dorico (1.23 MB)

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Sorry. I cannot reproduce your problem.
The file exported to XML and then imported to both MuseScore and back to Dorico without error.

When I Fall In Love (2) - Full score - 01 Flow 1.zip (20.5 KB)

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Will,
On my PC MuseScore 3 cannot import your file (same issues you are mentioning) but MuseScore 4.4 does the import without any problem.

Jan

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Thanks. I never quite warmed up to 4 (and my use is limited), but I’ll give it a shot. Looking first for a solution from Dorico, which has apparently had lots of trouble over time with XML.

Will

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I suspect at least part of the problem is that MuseScore 3 only uses MusicXML 3 rather than MusicXML 4. The complaint about line 222 is about the “system” attribute of the “direction” element, which was added in v4 of the MusicXML spec.

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Richard and jgkzdl:

Muse 4 did the trick. Thanks for the excellent guidance.

Will

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