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MusicXML: Format for Exchanging Digital Sheet Music

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Re: MusicXML: Format for Exchanging Digital Sheet Music

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Besides being machine-parsable (ie. not Turing-complete), what advantages does this have over Lilypond? It seems like they have very similar goals: Lilypond aims to be a professional typesetting system, where the focus on this looks more like interchange so they seem to pose it like MIDI-with-extra-presentation-commands?