For Song Imports, Is XML Available?

LaneLester

Songs in Presentation Manager are in a type of XML format, and I would like to know if it's something I can import. Here's a sample song file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<song xmlns="creativelifestyles/song">

<attributes>

<title>WFD</title>

</attributes>

<verses>

<verse id="Verse1a">

We fall down,

We lay our crowns

At the feet of Jesus,

The greatness of mercy and love

At the feet of Jesus.

</verse>

<verse id="Verse1b">

And we cry holy, holy, holy;

And we cry holy, holy, holy;

And we cry holy, holy, holy

Is the Lamb.

</verse>

</verses>

</song>

raoul

That actually looks very similar to the OpenLyrics format.

Could you email a couple of real songs to support(at)openlp.org ?

LaneLester

On the way!

Lane

LaneLester

 need to do what I can to start converting my >600 Presentation Manager song files to OpenLP.

Fetching them from SongSelect is not an option, because I have manually added punctuation to almost all of them.

I don't know anything about the other import formats, but I can use this skeleton to do a SongSelect import:

Title with Prefix, Two blank lines between each stanza.

Verse 1 (Chorus, Bridge, Pre-chorus, Intro, Ending, Other)

CCLI Song # 0000000

NA

© 2011

X

X

X

X

X

CCLI License # xxxxxx (my actual number here)

I don't know if all that stuff is needed, but it worked.

Well, in my one experiment, I noticed that a Chorus stanza was marked as an Other. I don't know if that's a bug in the import routine. I'm sure hoping everything that's not a Verse doesn't get marked as Other. That would include Chorus, Bridge, Pre-chorus, Intro,  and Ending

Lane