Windows scripts have the following general features:

• Scripts with file output can send their output to stdout which can also be piped to another script (*2MusicXml and *2Ly scripts)
• /h and --help options

The scripts are part of the installation, and are also available separately in a zip file here.

The musicXmlValidate script validates a MusicXML file against the MusicXml 4.0 schema. All of the musicXml2* conversion scripts validate the file before processing as well. A validation failure will result in the conversion not being run.

Validation uses the encoding indicated by the encoding attribute of the XML declaration, by default UTF-8.

In some cases, validation will fail when the encoding is given as UTF-8, and issue an error of this type:

Invalid byte 2 of 3-byte UTF-8 sequence

Usually, manually changing the encoding attribute value to ISO-8859-1 will result in a successful validation.