Changes in OpenLyrics¶

Release 0.9 (unreleased)¶

Make <song> attributes createdIn, modifiedIn and modifiedDate optional.
Add default language: xml:lang for <song>.
Add support for instrumental parts (<instrumental>) and beats (<beat>) alongside new verse types: other, intro, solo, middle.
Add support for repeating lines (<lines repeat="2">)
Add support for chordNotation attribute (chordNotation="hungarian")
Add support for non empty chords (<chord root="C" structure="dom7">lyrics...</chord>)
Add support for chord root, structure, bass attributes (<chord root="C" structure="min" bass="Eb"/>) by checking compliance, remove chord name attribute
Add “tool/openlyrics-0.8-to-openlyrics-0.9.xsl” to convert songs from OpenLyrics 0.8.
Add “tool/openlyrics-0.9-to-openlyrics-0.8.xsl” to convert songs from OpenLyrics 0.9 to 0.8.
Add “Makefile” to check well formedness, validity, and conversions.
Restrict values for musical key.
Restrict transposition between -11 and 11.
Add support for timeSignature.
Add arrangement type for author (<author type="arrangement">Name</author>).
Remove mandatory flag from author type=translation, as it may match the language of the XML document (xml:lang).
Documentation for formatting tags
Supply missing documentation for translit with title and theme
Add support for theoretical keys

Add support for application specific formatting tags in <lines> tag.
Drop tag <line>, for line endings is used tag <br/>
Rename <customVersion> to <version>.
Rename <releaseDate> to <released>.
Remove the ‘id’ attribute of the <theme> tag, as it was based on a line number in a file, which is not very accurate, nor very reliable.
Add script ‘tools/convert-schema.py’ to convert songs from older OpenLyrics versions.

Move attribute ‘xml:lang’ to just ‘lang’ since the tag could not always contain text in another language but also transliteration.
Allow empty lines by using syntax <line/> or <line></line> for that.
Add ‘e’ (ending) as a new reserved (standardized) name for verses (including other variants like e1, e2, e1a, ea, …): <verse name="e">.
Add transliteration support, attribute translit="". can be used in tags <title>, <theme>, <verse>.

Add multiple songbooks entries. Syntax changed from tags <collection> and <trackNo> to:

<songbooks>
  <songbook name="This is a Songbook Name" entry="123"/>
</songbooks>

Add script ‘opensong2openlyrics.py’ to convert OpenSong songs to OpenLyrics format.
Add examples of some public domain songs or not copyrighted.

Allow custom verse names <verse name="custom_name_name">.
Custom tempo <tempo type="custom">steadily</tempo>.
Stay with only one key (any text) <key>C#</key>.
Allow any chord notation (any text).
Restrict ccli theme ‘id’ to range 1-999.
Theme value can’t be empty.
Namespace changed from http://www.openlyrics.info/2009/song/namespace to http://openlyrics.info/namespace/2009/song.
Content of an optional tag is mandatory, when the tag present in xml.

Move to RelaxNG xml schema.
Tag attribute change. xml:lang describes the language of an tag. Change from <author type="translation" xml:lang="cs"> to `` <author type=”translation” lang=”cs”>``.
Xml schema: in ‘author’ tag attribute ‘lang’ is required when attribute ‘type’ contains value ‘translation’ <author type="translation" lang="cs">.