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XML data binding refers to the process of representing the information in an [[XML]] document as an [[Object (computer science)|object]] in computer memory. This allows [[Application software|applications]] to access the data in the XML from the object rather than using the [[Document Object Model|DOM]] to retrieve the data from a direct representation of the XML itself.

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

When this process is applied to convert an XML document to an object, it is called [[marshalling]]. The reverse process, to serialize an object as XML, is called [[unmarshalling]].