Editing XML data binding (section)

==Description==
An XML data binder accomplishes this by automatically creating a mapping between elements of the [[XML schema]] of the document we wish to bind and [[Instance variable|members]] of a [[Class (computer science)|class]] to be represented in memory.

When this process is applied to convert an XML document to an object, it is called [[Serialization|unmarshalling]] (also called deserialization). The reverse process, to serialize an object as XML, is called [[marshalling (computer science)|marshalling]].

Approaches to data binding can be distinguished as follows:

* '''XML schema based:''' Based on an existing XML schema, classes that correspond to the schema are generated.
* '''Class based:''' Based on a set of classes to be serialized, a corresponding XML schema is generated.
* '''Mapping-based:''' A mapping description, usually itself an XML document, describes how an existing XML schema maps to a set of classes, and vice versa.