1. A method of providing data to an application, comprising the steps of: providing a mailfile stored on a server, of documents having a section and fields; receiving a request from an application running on a user workstation different from said server, for one of said documents; retrieving said fields of said one of said documents from said mailfile; in response to said fields, retrieving said one of said documents as a markup language document; inserting at said server, a URL into said markup language document to retrieve said section of said one of said documents; retrieving at said server, said section from said mailfile in said markup language; removing at said server, said URL from the retrieved document and creating an object having said section expanded in the retrieved document; and sending said object to said application.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein said fields are retrieved as an XML document.