{"id":194,"date":"2023-11-09T14:03:20","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T13:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbx-if.de\/home\/?page_id=194"},"modified":"2026-03-19T10:54:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T09:54:05","slug":"recpractices","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mbx-if.org\/home\/cax\/recpractices\/","title":{"rendered":"CAx Recommended Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"xml\">AP242 Domain Model XML<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table aligncenter w-70\"><table><thead><tr><th>Functionality<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Current Version<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>Kinematics<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbx-if.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/rec_prac_ap242xml_kinematics_v1.3.pdf\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"1484\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Version 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