DDEX develops standards for the electronic communication of music-related metadata using, to the most part, messages. One step in verifying that a message has been created in accordance with the standard is “validation”.
For those DDEX standards based on XML – i.e. ERN, MLCRDR, RIN, MWL, MWN, LoD and others – off-the-shelf XML tools can be used to help with validation. For the flat file standards (DSR and, soon, CDM) DDEX members have created tools.
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