[Metadatalibrarians] Question about MARCXML and ISBD punctuation

[Schwartz, Christine]

Hi,

I need some help with best practice for the placement of ISBD
punctuation in MARCXML records.

The ISBD punctuation usually comes at the end of each subfield.
Question: Is is okay to move this punctuation to to the beginning of the
next subfield instead?

For example:

<marc:datafield tag="245" ind1="1" ind2="4">
            <marc:subfield code="a">The Reformation of the sixteenth
century in its relation to
                modern thought and knowledge</marc:subfield>
            <marc:subfield code="b">: lectures delivered at Oxford and
in London, in April, May and
                June, 1883</marc:subfield>
            <marc:subfield code="c">/ by Charles Beard.</marc:subfield>
        </marc:datafield>

What kind of problems could we be creating for ourselves?

Thanks,

Chris

Christine Schwartz
Metadata Librarian
Princeton Theological Seminary Libraries
christine.schwartz at ptsem.edu
(609) 497-7938