Populating data structures of software applications with input data provided according to extensible markup language (XML)

摘要

An aspect of the present invention populates data structures of a software application with input data provided according to XML. In one embodiment, the input data and a schema is received, with the schema containing another set of data structures according to the programming language in which the software application is written. The input data is parsed according to the schema to identify elements and corresponding values. The identified values are then stored in the fields of the data structures of the application. According to another aspect, the schema received with the input data specifies a mapping of each of the elements in the input data to corresponding fields of data structures of a software application. Accordingly, the specified fields of the data structures are set to the values associated with the corresponding mapped elements in the input data.