From de75f82843b00c8a61d500b31c9ac7a14193c2a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Axel Berndt <axel.berndt@uni-paderborn.de>
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2024 17:45:45 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] v0.11.0 - Added file `/resources/minimal.mei` which is used
 by constructor `meico.mei.Mei.Mei()` to instantiate an empty Mei object. The
 object now contains an MEI with no meaningful content, but when writing it to
 a file it is valid now. Using this constructor will now require exception
 handling!

---
 history.md                |  4 ++++
 src/meico/Meico.java      |  2 +-
 src/meico/mei/Mei.java    |  4 ++--
 src/resources/minimal.mei | 14 ++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 src/resources/minimal.mei

diff --git a/history.md b/history.md
index 87bb3a1f..58d07fbc 100644
--- a/history.md
+++ b/history.md
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 ### Version History
 
 
+#### v0.11.0
+- Added file `/resources/minimal.mei` which is used by constructor `meico.mei.Mei.Mei()` to instantiate an empty Mei object. The object now contains an MEI with no meaningful content, but when writing it to a file it is valid now. Using this constructor will now require exception handling!
+
+
 #### v0.10.0
 - Conversion of MEI to MusicXML implemented. Thanks to [Matthias Nowakowski](https://github.com/mnowakow).
   - `meiHead` nearly completely.
diff --git a/src/meico/Meico.java b/src/meico/Meico.java
index c8d1e321..a0e429b8 100644
--- a/src/meico/Meico.java
+++ b/src/meico/Meico.java
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
  * @author Axel Berndt
  */
 public class Meico {
-    public static final String version = "0.10.0";
+    public static final String version = "0.11.0";
 
     public static void main(String[] args) {
         System.out.println("meico v" + Meico.version);
diff --git a/src/meico/mei/Mei.java b/src/meico/mei/Mei.java
index 03777e3e..c9a83d6c 100644
--- a/src/meico/mei/Mei.java
+++ b/src/meico/mei/Mei.java
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ public class Mei extends meico.xml.XmlBase {
     /**
      * a default constructor that creates an empty Mei instance
      */
-    public Mei() {
-        super();
+    public Mei() throws ParsingException, IOException {
+        super(Mei.class.getResourceAsStream("/resources/minimal.mei"));
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/src/resources/minimal.mei b/src/resources/minimal.mei
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..cc36604d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/resources/minimal.mei
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<?xml-model href="https://music-encoding.org/schema/5.0/mei-CMN.rng" type="application/xml" schematypens="http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0"?>
+<?xml-model href="https://music-encoding.org/schema/5.0/mei-CMN.rng" type="application/xml" schematypens="http://purl.oclc.org/dsdl/schematron"?>
+<mei xmlns="http://www.music-encoding.org/ns/mei" meiversion="5.0">
+    <meiHead>
+        <fileDesc>
+            <titleStmt>
+                <title/>
+            </titleStmt>
+            <pubStmt/>
+        </fileDesc>
+    </meiHead>
+    <music/>
+</mei>
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