In October 2004, Douglas Instruments released a version of XStep, its optimization software, which can export experimental data in XML format. 

Xstep gives a simple-to-use spreadsheet environment where values can be interpolated between wells in opposite corners of a plate.  It also generates experiments with multivariate designs such as Box-Behnken and Central Composite.

XML is a standard that can be read by most databases, spreadsheets etc.  It represents data using a hierarchical structure - this makes it easy for the importer to reorganize the data and to ignore branches that contain data that is not of interest.