All rights reserved. An opus collects MusicXML scores together into a larger entity. The individual scores could be movements in a symphony, scenes or acts in an opera, or songs in an album. In the future it is intended that the opus.dtd will expand to include reference data and other metadata related to musical scores. Opus is the document element.
Scores provide the links to the individual movements.
The root element contains an xlink namespace declaration, so that the namespace may be used in all elements without redeclaration. Note that the URI may change as XLink is not yet a W3C recommendation. For now, just include the title of the opus. All rights reserved. Last updated October 11, 2001.