Administrative definitions, business object metadata and workflows, as well as checked-in files, can be exported from one root database and imported into another. Exporting and importing can be used across schema of the same version level, allowing definitions and structures to be created and fine tuned on a test system before integrating them into a production database.
When you export a business object, you can save the data to an exchange file or to an XML format file that follows the Matrix.dtd specifications. An exchange file is created according to the exchange Format. This format or the XML format must be adhered to strictly to import the file.
The Exchange Format is subject to change with each version.