XML data binding

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XML data binding refers to a means of representing information in an XML document as a business object in computer memory. This allows applications to access the data in the XML from the object, rather than using the DOM or SAX to retrieve the data from a direct representation of the XML itself.

It makes it possible to read and write XML data using a programming language class library (e.g. C++, C#, Java), specifically created for a given XML data format.^[1] Whilst it is possible to manually write a computer program to achieve this, XML data binding tools generate the source code to perform these tasks.