13. A system according to claim 12, further comprising: means for utilizing the rule to transform the element of the first structured information format into the element of the second structured information format.
12. A system according to claim 11, wherein the parser object comprises: a reference to the element of the first structured information format; a reference to a storage area for the plurality of first structured information format components; and an object method for processing the element of the first structured information format into the plurality of first structured information format components for storage in the storage area for the plurality of first structured information format components.