DATA REPORTING APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES IN AN XML PARSER GENERATOR FOR XML VALIDATION AND DESERIALIZATION

1 . A method for interfacing with an XML (Extensible Markup Language) parser generator to generate deserialization information interleaved with XML parsing and validation, the method comprising:

providing an XML parser generator with information about the schema which the instance data conforms to;

providing a data reporting application programming interface (API) and a generator module;

providing one or more implementations of the data reporting API;

providing the XML parser generator with a selected data reporting API implementation module;

generating an XML parser to parse and validate instance documents conforming to the specified input schema and deserializing the instance documents into the desired deserialization form during the parse.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the data reporting API is used to generate code that creates appropriate data structures to store the instance data, assign values to the data structures, and allocate space.

3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the data reporting API is used to generate code that creates an event stream representation of the instance data.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein two types of information is exchanged between the data reporting API and the XML parser generator.

5 . The method of claim 4 , wherein a first type of information describes a current context that the XML parser generator is currently generating code for.

6 . The method of claim 4 , wherein a second type of information involves how the instance data is referenced during runtime and how the XML parser generator refers to the referenced instance data for parsing and validation requirements.

7 . A computer program product for interfacing with an XML (Extensible Markup Language) parser generator to generate deserialization information interleaved with XML parsing and validation, the computer program product comprising:

a storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method comprising:

providing an XML parser generator with information about the schema which the instance data conforms to;

providing a data reporting application programming interface (API) and a generator module;

providing one or more implementations of the data reporting API;

providing the XML parser generator with a selected data reporting API implementation module;

generating an XML parser to parse and validate instance documents conforming to the specified input schema and deserializing the instance documents into the desired deserialization form during the parse.

8 . The computer program product of claim 7 , wherein the data reporting API is used to generate code that creates appropriate data structures to store the instance data, assign values to the data structures, and allocate space.

9 . The computer program product of claim 7 , wherein the data reporting API is used to generate code that creates an event stream representation of the instance data.

10 . The computer program product of claim 7 , wherein two types of information is exchanged between the data reporting API and the XML parser generator.

11 . The computer program product of claim 10 , wherein a first type of information describes a current context that the XML parser generator is currently generating code for.

12 . The computer program product of claim 10 , wherein a second type of information involves how the instance data is referenced during runtime and how the XML parser generator refers to the referenced instance data for parsing and validation requirements.