My answer is about a *personal* customization of DocBook (i.e. which is to be installed in <XXE_user_preferences_dir>/config/).
If your question was about a system-wide customization of DocBook, do not hesitate to ask your question one more time. Claus Bech Rasmussen - TELMORE wrote: > I've created a few commands that I'd like to put into the DocBook menu, > but I'd rather keep my stuff in it's own configuration folder as I do > other things too. Currently I add an include line to the docbook > configuration to slurp in my extras when working with DocBook documents, > but I'd like to know if there's something I can do to load my > configuration without touching the docbook files at all? Yes. See http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/docs/configure/ch04.html There is even a ready to use example: <XXE_install_dir>/docs/configure/samples2/mydocbook.xxe which looks like this: --- <?xml version='1.0' encoding='ISO-8859-1'?> <configuration name="DocBook" xmlns="http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/schema/configuration" xmlns:cfg="http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/schema/configuration"> <include location="xxe-config:docbook/docbook.xxe"/> . customization items . . </configuration> --- > I read the documentation for <detect> and it seems that it won't try > more options once it has found a match, so I can't reuse the docbook > detect rules and have my configuration loaded along with the docbook > one? That's correct. There is no way to reuse an existing <detect>. You need to completely rewrite your own <detect> if you want to cutomize something in the stock <detect>.

