>   yr within "1980 1990"
> I'm assuming that the quotes would be mandatory.

The quotes would need to be there, otherwise it wouldn't parse as CQL.
I would hope that the terms are the ISO standard, potentially truncated
as above.

Space separated is good for me, personally. Then for geographic points we
can have "37-00-00N,101-54-00W"

Rob

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