This talk will examine the broad topic of binding XML to Java. We'll start by comparing and contrasting W3C DOM with EMF's equivalent, the AnyType, for doing analogous things. Next we will consider how a data model, i.e., an XML Schema, helps raise the level of abstraction by restricting the arbitrary syntax of XML to something more orderly; we'll show how that orderliness is exploited by EMF to produce a high level model; and we'll show how that model is used to generate an API or to emulate the equivalent instance behavior dynamically. We'll briefly compare the code generated by EMF to what JAXB specifies. You'll leave this talk with a good understanding of how best to take advantage of EMF for addressing your XML processing needs.