Two important international standards relating to text have emerged. One of these, SGML, describes a framework for descriptive markup. The other, and more recent, deals with a command language interface for full text retrieval. The two standards have been developed in isolation from one another and the command language can handle only the conventional view of text and not the relatively complex structures implicit in descriptive markup. In this paper, it is shown how a relatively simple syntactic extension to the command language enables it to be applied to SGML databases. Some implementation issues are also discussed.
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