1. An industrial control system, comprising: a first processor configured to: intake a schema definition file configured to define a set of rules for a data document to follow; extract one or more data adherence rules from the schema definition file; and store the one or more data adherence rules to enable subsequent data validation, data generation, data configuration, or a combination thereof, of one or more system data objects without requiring creation of the data document, wherein the data objects relate to one or more components of the industrial control system.