1. A computer program product for processing schemas and data in a storage system, wherein the computer program product comprises a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therein that executes to perform operations, the operations comprising: providing a schema, wherein the schema provides a definition of elements, wherein at least one of the elements comprises a recursive element of a recursive data type, wherein the recursive data type allows for instances of the recursive element to include instances of that same recursive data type at different levels in a hierarchy; receiving indication to transform recursive data types to non-recursive structures; and generating a view for the schema including information on the received indication to transform the recursive data types to non-recursive structure, wherein processing of the data defined by the view causes a parser to: determine for a processed instance of a recursive element in the view whether the indication to transform the recursive data types to non-recursive structure for the processed instance indicates to terminate recursion; generate a structured element for each instance of the recursive element in schema data being parsed that does not indicate to terminate recursion, wherein the generated structured element further includes a parent unique identifier of a parent instance of the instance for which the structured element is generated; and chunk data for the processed instance of the recursive element and for instances of recursive elements at higher levels of recursion within the processed instance in response to the indication to transform the recursive data types to non-recursive structure for the processed instance indicating to terminate recursion, wherein the generated structured element includes a unique identifier of the instance of the recursive element; and augmenting a definition of the recursive element for the schema in the view to include a first attribute for the unique identifier of the recursive element and a second attribute for the parent unique identifier.