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A Generic Framework for Structured Do cument Access Franck Fourel Philipp e Mulhem and MarieFrance Bruandet Universite Joseph Fourier Lab oratoire CLIPS IMAG BP Grenoble Cedex France Abstract Current electronic do cument retrieval systems ie database systems or information retrieval systems do not handle enough the rich ness related to the do cument structures Based on a classical mo del of structured do cuments our approach intends to integrate propagation mechanisms related to do cument structure These machanisms called scop es of attributes have two goals they exhibit information that is usually kept implicit in do cuments and they address dep endencies b e tween the values of the attributes used for the retrieval of the do cuments The mo del of do cuments the propagation and retrieval mechanisms com p ose a generic framework for the retrieval of structured do cuments Intro duction Electronic do cument management is a challenging problem for new information systems for instance digital libraries New problems related to the storage and the retrieval of such electronic do cuments issue from their structural features Do cuments are often structured and can b e generally viewed as an organization of entities the do cument parts We address here the problem of accessing in formation from a collection of structured do cuments Because of the multiple features of such do cuments the retrieval mo del used has to b e adaptable to t the users information needs Most of the time this retrieval mo del dep ends on the typ e of the system database management system information retrieval system or hyp ermedia system and this mo del is to o strict We describ e here the relevant features of these