Can I extract questions in an automatic way?

As part of our questions, we have a decent amount of meta-data to store per question. We opted to store this in a separate database. The only connection we have with quizmaker is an ID. It is requested to the question-creators to integrate this ID as part of a question.

As you can imagine, this is a tricky thing to do. So I’d like to install some kind of consistency checks to have additional security over our way of working.

One example: "A quiz should only exist out of non-retired questions".
If today I want to check this, I have to open both the database and the quizmaker-file and manually compare if each question in the quiz-file has a metadata-value different from ‘retired’ in the database.

My question: Is there a possibility to extract the questions from a quizmaker-file in an automatic way? If yes, this would allow us to do above check via some scripting. I know we can publish to Word and start from there, but I’m talking of 250+ quiz-files (and growing), so that option is not workable.