For reasons (mostly) not connected with Mudcat, I've just been modifying John Lynch's abc2xml.xsl file to output abc lyric lines (w:). If anyone has any use for this pm me an email address and you're welcome to a copy.

I made the change because I may use it to generate abc from Sibelius scores in the Yorkshire Garland project - outputting xml from Sibelius and doing the abc conversion (at least a preliminary version) via xls (I'm using Apache's xalan xls processor at the moment).

The script is for xml 1.0 and uses xls 1.0 also (I think!). It can only handle a single voice, but will process chords and grace notes. So far I've only used it on a few test files but it looks OK. I should have a better idea by the time I've finished the 80-odd files in the preliminary YG project. I don't think the script handles annotations yet and I might look at doing that as well.

Mick