Re: [office-comment] shorter XML representations for the values ?

Robert Weir scripsit:

> That would add considerable complexity on ODF processors, including
> byte-order concerns.

Base-62 numbers would not have byte-order concerns, any more than base-10
numbers do.  That is, they are universally big-endian; nobody writes one
hundred as 001).

Your other points are of course telling.

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John Cowan                         http://www.ccil.org