Yikes! Not a pretty sight…
I’ll have to re-do the entire piece again, probably. Yes, I’m still working on the French artsongs I was futzing with last autumn, and I want to import them all into Dorico.
I expect it’s something on my end, because many others, I know, are having excellent results with XML files. I have attached the .xml in question. Many thanks, all!
Scènes & Melodies pour piano et chant (Martial Caillebotte) Sérénade.xml.zip (24.5 KB)
I understand your being deceived. The result is unusable in Dorico… I find Sibelius can read it quite fine, but displays a message — it seems like the XML format is old, I don’t know if that could explain the result in Dorico. FWIW, if you want, I can create you a XML file from a pdf with Photoscore, and the XML files import very well in Dorico. Just send me the pdf 
Thanks for attaching this file, Jeff. We’ll look into it and come back to you.
Dear Jeff,
I looked into it in detail, and I think there was a faulty triplet at the beginning of the score. Once this has been corrected, here is the dorico file from the uncompressed XML (I also corrected some french mistakes )
Hope it helps !
Caillebotte – Sérénade.dorico.zip (451 KB)