17. The computer program product of claim 15 wherein the metadata section further comprises statistics associated with contents of the parsed binary format ML document.
17. The computer program product of claim 15 wherein the metadata section further comprises statistics associated with contents of the parsed binary format ML document. 18. The computer program product of claim 17 wherein the statistics include at least one of a summary of data types within the ML document and encoding of a text form of the ML document.