1. A computer-implemented method for the development of an Extensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) access policy representing a real-world access policy, comprising the steps of: providing one or more security-related parameters specifying the real-world access policy; inputting the one or more security-related parameters via a near natural language interface; creating one or more intermediate data structures from the one or more security-related parameters; generating an XACML access policy from the one or more intermediate data structures; and generating, using at least the XACML access policy, a near natural language representation of the XACML access policy to verify consistency with the one or more security-related parameters.