Markup language integration at runtime

Abstract

Methods and apparatus for marshalling markup language objects into programming language objects in a scripting language runtime environment. A markup language integration method may be implemented in scripting runtime environments that allows the use of simple and complex markup language structures in scripts. At runtime of a script, only classes for the schema structures that are referenced by the script are generated. Document Object Model (DOM) objects may be incrementally constructed according to the schema structures referenced by the script, and bytecode may be generated corresponding to the schema structures according to class metadata for the schema structures. The bytecode may be dynamically linked in the runtime environment. The classes defined by the schema act as wrappers for the DOM objects; when an object is updated by the script, a corresponding DOM object is also updated. Type checking may be applied to catch script errors during development.