When exporting a BOM triggered by workflow, there is only XML available > why? I think, a plain tab separated TXT would be enough ... When using this BOM to XML via workflow trigger, besides the desired meta data (CAD properties = PDM variables) there are tons of additional content inside of the XML > what is it for?
XML is usually in use for some other system integration(example PLM), pretty much all that available data is important in that case. Example all the data and structures inside xml creates another structure in PLM system with mapped attributes.