For product and manufacturing information, STEP-XML is a short term for ISO 10303-28, Industrial automation systems and integration—Product data representation and exchange—Part 28: Implementation methods: XML representations of EXPRESS schema and data.
[1] STEP-XML specifies the use of the Extensible Markup Language (XML) to represent EXPRESS schema (ISO 10303-11) and the data that is governed by those EXPRESS schema.
It is an alternative method to STEP-File for the exchange of data according to ISO 10303.
The following specifications are within the scope of ISO 10303-28: The following specifications are outside the scope of ISO 10303-28: