[step-manufacturing] New version of the STEP-NC Write library

[Martin Hardwick]

All,

The STEP-NC Write library has been updated to fix a subtle bug that 
can occur when XML files containing a lot of numbers are sent between 
e-mail systems. Some e-mail systems assume that a "." as the first 
character on a line has a special meaning and assume that they 
can/should make changes to the data. There are a lot of numbers in 
STEP-NC XML file so when any file is transmitted it is quite likely 
that sooner or later one of the numbers will be split between two 
lines at exactly the decimal point.

Therefore, we have updated the STEP-NC Write Library (and the STEP-NC 
DLL) so that an XML escape is used for the decimal points. This 
escape is invisible if you look at the data in a browser, but you 
will see it if you look at the data in a text editor.

Please e-mail us if you have any questions. There are more details in 
the STEP-NC Write documentation on our home page (see the comments in 
the print_real() function).

Martin Hardwick
STEP Tools, Inc.