Why does XML import of single parts yield better results in MuseScore and Finale than in Dorico

[mducharme]

See this thread:

Multimeasure rest from MusicXML disappear

I’m importing a MusicXML file, generated in Sibelius. For some reason, bars with multi measure rests are not shown and I cannot make them visible in any way. In this particular piece, the first two bars are hidden and a few bars of rest in the middle are hidden. So the piece starts at measure 3 and the bar numbering in the middle jumps from 110 to 113. So apparently, these measures are imported by Dorico, but not shown. Have I stumbled on a bug or am I missing some way to make the bars visible?

There are some workarounds mentioned in that thread that you can use, but it is worth restating here that just because the other programs import the multimeasure rest correctly doesn’t necessarily mean that it is correct MusicXML. Errors can result in different scenarios - some programs may accept invalid syntax while others do not.

Also since it sounds like you have Sibelius 7 yourself, you might want to install Dolet for Sibelius and use that to export instead (via the plugins menu) as it may give different results - one of the versions supported Sibelius 7, I know I had to use that old version before I upgraded. That wasn’t suggested in that thread because that person didn’t actually have Sibelius, they were sent the XML by someone else.