27. The apparatus of claim 21 , wherein the binding specifications are user defined in extensible markup language(XML).
21. An apparatus for simplifying binding specifications provided to a computer program and generating a computer readable document utilized for input into an application, the apparatus comprising: means for obtaining an extensible markup language (XML) framework having definitions of a first set of rules for a first grammar level used for interpretation of binding specifications to bind a user interface object to an underlying object, wherein the application is incompatible with the first grammar level; means for performing a first extensible style sheet (XSL) transformation of the framework to generate the first set of rules for interpretation of the binding specifications in the first grammar level; means for performing a second XSL transformation of the framework to generate a first presentation style for the first grammar level; means for obtaining the binding specification in the first grammar level, the binding specification conforming to the first set of rules; and means for applying the first set of rules and the first presentation style to the binding specification to generate output binding specifications in a second grammar level compatible with the-application.