1. An Advanced Function Presentation (AFP) system configured to generate an AFP document for output, the system comprising: an AFP application generator configured to add an AFP component to the AFP document, and to identify a meta-data object (MDO) for the AFP component; wherein the AFP application generator is further configured to insert a Map Data Resource (MDR) structured field corresponding to the AFP component into the AFP document, wherein the MDR specifies the name of the MDO associating the MDO with a specified scope of objects in the AFP component and further includes a processing mode field indicating whether the MDO is descriptive and does not affect the presentation of the AFP component on an output device or indicating whether the MDO is operational and does affect the presentation of the AFP component on the output device; and an output device configured to determine that the processing mode field, wherein if the MDO is descriptive, then the MDO is ignored, and if the MDO is operational, then at least one of the following is performed: masking a presentation of the AFP component; eliminating a presentation of the AFP component; and partially presenting the AFP component on the output device based on the determination.