The configuration for each Cheshire database is in the form of an SGML document. It has the following basic structure:

• dbconfig
  • dbenv
  • filedef
    • filetag
    • filename
    • filecont
    • explain
      • titlestring
      • description
      • disclaimers
      • news
      • hours
      • besttime
      • lastupdate
      • updateinterval
        • value
        • units
      • coverage
      • proprietary
      • copyrighttext
      • producercontactinfo
        • contact_name
        • contact_address
        • contact_email
      • suppliercontactinfo
        • contact_name
        • contact_address
        • contact_email
    • filedtd
    • sgmlcat
    • assocfil
    • history
    • indexes
      • indexdef
        • indxname
        • indxtag
        • indxmap
          • use
          • relat
          • posit
          • struct
          • trunc
          • compet
        • stoplist
        • indxkey
          • tagspec
            • ftag
            • s
            • attr
            • value
    • clusters
      • clusterdef
        • clusname
        • cluskey
          • tagspec
        • stoplist
        • clusmap
          • from
            • tagspec
          • to
            • tagspec
          • summarize
            • maxnum
            • tagspec
    • components
      • componentdef
        • componentname
        • componentnorm
        • compstarttag
        • compendtag
        • componentindexes
          • indexdef
    • dispoptions
    • displays
      • displaydef
        • convert
          • clusmap
        • exclude
          • tagspec

The clusmap, indexdef and tagspec trees are only shown once on the tree.