Database display system using list management of display formats

摘要

A database display system is provided which makes it unnecessary for the user to remember each of the names or locations of display formats in cases where a plurality of display formats are associated with a database. An external storage holds, in addition to a data section for storing instance groups, a management section in which a plurality of display formats are collectively stored. A display format list displaying unit displays the display formats stored in the management section in the form of a list to permit a desired display format to be selected and specified, and the display conditions of the specified display format are analyzed by a display format analyzing unit. When instances are read from the data section by instance read-in means, they are edited in memory means according to the analyzed display format, and a list of the edited instances is displayed by a display unit.