RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Programmatically accessing configuration info inaDocBook instance

[David Cramer <dcramer at broadjump dot com>]

Have you considered customizing the dtd to add the widget configuration
markup you need? The DTD has been designed with customization in mind:
http://docbook.org/tdg/en/html/ch05.html. Where to allow the widget
markup depends on how you want the documents structured. Perhaps inside
a refentry <http://docbook.org/tdg/en/html/refentry.html>?  

David

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Campbell [mailto:richard.campbell@oarcorp.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 4:37 PM
To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: Programmatically accessing configuration info in
aDocBook instance

Can anyone suggest a way to accomplish the following?

As an integrator of computer controlled widgets I require my widget
vendors
to supply the technical manual for their widget as as DocBook XML file.
When
I install a widget on my reconfigurable hardware platform I place the
document in a repository so that the operator can browse the manual. In
addition, the document, acting as a configuration file on steroids will
include some widget configuration information that my software
application
can access to know how to control the widget.  The application will use
libxml2, Gdome, or  gmetadom to parse the xml document and build an
in-memory Document Object Model.

My question is where or what construct in the DocBook would be
appropriate
to store this sort of configuration information so that it can be
accessed
programatically. Index, table, ?