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Monjyo" and develops techniques that could contribute towards a better understanding and preservation of similar historical documents.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."