It would not be a good idea in my opinion -- better to keep a UCD as a single-word (no blank). 2 reasons: 1. XML is not the only way of expressing UCDs --- UCDs must also
be available in other contexts and your solution introduces a
complication in these other contexts
2. Could be useful in the future to attach several UCDs to a
quantity or some VO item -- then you would have to invent something special to code this array of UCDs in XML
--Francois
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>Haven't heard any response to this message suggesting an alternative means
>of concatenating UCDs to permit their parsing by an XML parser. Here's a
>forward to make sure you all got it.
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>No, we don't yet have UCD's operating under a schema, but we might want
>to some day and it will be much less painful if we make the switch now.
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>As far as I can tell, there's no obivous reason for the present choice of
>separator.
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>Rick
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