%0 Journal Article %A Zhe JIN and Motomichi TOYAMA %D 2008 %J International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering %B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology %I Open Science Index 15, 2008 %T A Formatting Method for Transforming XML Data into HTML %U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/8248 %V 15 %X In this paper, we propose a fixed formatting method of PPX(Pretty Printer for XML). PPX is a query language for XML database which has extensive formatting capability that produces HTML as the result of a query. The fixed formatting method is to completely specify the combination of variables and layout specification operators within the layout expression of the GENERATE clause of PPX. In the experiment, a quick comparison shows that PPX requires far less description compared to XSLT or XQuery programs doing the same tasks. %P 744 - 750