3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the schema definition file comprises an XML schema definition (XSD) file.
1. An industrial control system, comprising: a first hardware-based processor configured to: intake a processor-readable schema definition file configured to define a set of rules for a data document to follow; generate one or more data adherence rules, the data adherence rules comprising a set of rules for non-data document data, by: extracting attributes, elements, or both from the schema definition file; and determining the one or more data adherence rules using the extracted attributes, elements, or both; and store the one or more data adherence rules to enable subsquent data validation, data generation, data configuration, or a combination thereof, of one or more system data objects, the subsequent data validation being based upon data of the one or more system data objects without validating against any portion of the data document, wherein the data objects relate to one or more components of the industrial control system.