Use of Templates as Message Pruning Schemas

A system, method, and computer-readable medium for method for generating a template pruning schema from a template. A parser parses the template, where the template includes a typed data structure with one or more fields. The parser retrieves a pruning schema associated with the typed data structure. The parser also generates the template pruning schema from the pruning schema by identifying each field in the pruning schema that corresponds to the field in the template.