The "Syoso-in Monjyo" is a generic name of a set of documents that were handed down in the Syoso-in of Todaiji Temple from the 8th century. The "Syoso-in Monjyo" has been remarkably deformed and ruined due to transcriptions on both sides of the paper and also "Rearrangement" in the 19th Century. The "Syoso-in Monjyo" exhibits an unique dissimilarity between their logical structure and physical layout. This research attempts to apply the XML/XSLT (eXtensible Markup Language/eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) for restoring "Syoso-in Monjyo" and develops techniques that could contribute towards a better understanding and preservation of similar historical documents.
　The authors have developed a Support tool that restores the logical/physical form of the documents using the XSL/XSLT and also examined procedures for formulating a rulebased logic. The "Syoso-in Monjyo" structure is based on related plural material that can be converted into XML expressions using the structured support tool. This XML document can be displayed on a Web browser using the XSL which restores the original logical form of the document while the physical structure is restored with a MS-Word macro as "Tanzaku."

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　This paper describes data sharing system for the study of Japanese Classical Literature, mainly from the view of data creation using XML/SGML. We adopted XML/SGML because XML/SGML data serves as an excellent intermediate format for data storage, data interchange, and information retrieva1. First our own markup system (KOKIN rules) for building full-text data will be explained in detail, then our trial conversion of KOKIN-based data to XML/SGML is discussed. Finally collaboration system based on Z39.50 and Dublin Core metadata to share variety kinds of data is summarized.

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　This paper describes digitalization of "Dao-fa Hui-yuan", which is a theoretical manual about Daoism exorcism in Daoism scriptures "Zheng-tong Dao-zang", and was compiled in Sung era or Yuan one. Contents of Dao-fa Hui-yuan consist of texts and figures such as charms. The research attaches importance to construct a system for that emphasizes characteristics of Dao-fa Hui-yuan. The paper discusses problems of digitalization of Dao-fa Hui-yuan, and asserts significance of system construction that considers contents of original materials.

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