diff --git a/doc/api/.cvsignore b/doc/api/.cvsignore
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+++ b/doc/api/.cvsignore
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+Makefile
+Makefile.in
+gphoto2-api.html
+html
+sgml
+gphoto2-scan.c
+gphoto2-scan
+html.stamp
+sgml.stamp
+
diff --git a/doc/api/Makefile.am b/doc/api/Makefile.am
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+++ b/doc/api/Makefile.am
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+DOC_MODULE=gphoto2
+
+DOC_MAIN_SGML_FILE=gphoto2-api.sgml
+
+DOC_SOURCE_DIR=$(top_srcdir)/libgphoto2
+
+CFLAGS="-I../.. `gphoto2-config --cflags`"
+LDFLAGS="`gphoto2-config --ldflags`"
+
+TARGET_DIR=$(HTML_DIR)/$(DOC_MODULE)
+
+tmpl_sources =			\
+	tmpl/widget.sgml
+
+gphoto2_docdir = $(HTML_DIR)
+gphoto2_doc_DATA = 		\
+	gphoto2-api.sgml	\
+	gphoto2-api.html
+
+EXTRA_DIST = $(gphoto2_doc_DATA)
+
+if ENABLE_GTK_DOC
+gphoto2-api.html: html/book1.html
+	-cp $(srcdir)/html/book1.html $(srcdir)/gphoto2-api.html
+else
+gphoto2-api.html:
+endif
+
+html/book1.html: sgml/gphoto2-doc.bottom
+	$(MAKE) html
+
+sgml/gphoto2-doc.bottom: $(tmpl_sources)
+	$(MAKE) sgml
+
+scan:
+	-(cd $(srcdir) \
+	&& env CFLAGS=$(CFLAGS) LDFLAGS=$(LDFLAGS) \
+		gtkdoc-scanobj --module=$(DOC_MODULE) \
+	&& gtkdoc-scan --module=$(DOC_MODULE) \
+		../../include/gphoto2-widget.h
+
+templates:
+	cd $(srcdir) && gtkdoc-mktmpl --module=$(DOC_MODULE)
+
+sgml:
+	cd $(srcdir) \
+	&& gtkdoc-mkdb --module=$(DOC_MODULE) \
+		--source-dir=$(top_srcdir)/libgphoto2
+
+html:
+	test -d $(srcdir)/html || mkdir $(srcdir)/html
+	-cd $(srcdir)/html && gtkdoc-mkhtml $(DOC_MODULE) ../$(DOC_MAIN_SGML_FILE)
+
+clean-local:
+	rm -f *~ *.bak *-unused.txt
+
+maintainer-clean-local: clean
+	cd $(srcdir) && rm -rf sgml html $(DOC_MODULE)-decl-list.txt $(DOC_MODULE)-decl.txt
+
+install-data-local:
+	$(mkinstalldirs) $(DESTDIR)$(TARGET_DIR)
+	(installfiles=`echo $(srcdir)/html/*.html`; \
+	if test "$$installfiles" = '$(srcdir)/html/*.html'; \
+	then echo '-- Nothing to install' ; \
+	else \
+	  for i in $$installfiles; do \
+	    echo '-- Installing '$$i ; \
+	    $(INSTALL_DATA) $$i $(DESTDIR)$(TARGET_DIR); \
+	  done; \
+	  echo '-- Installing $(srcdir)/html/index.sgml' ; \
+	  $(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/html/index.sgml $(DESTDIR)$(TARGET_DIR); \
+	  echo '-- Fixing Crossreferences' ; \
+	  gtkdoc-fixxref --module=$(DOC_MODULE) --html-dir=$(HTML_DIR)|| true; \
+	fi)
+
+dist-hook:
+	mkdir $(distdir)/html
+	mkdir $(distdir)/sgml
+	mkdir $(distdir)/tmpl
+	-cp $(srcdir)/html/*.html $(srcdir)/html/*.css $(distdir)/html
+	-cp $(srcdir)/tmpl/*.sgml $(distdir)/tmpl
+	-cp $(srcdir)/sgml/*.sgml $(distdir)/sgml
+	-cp $(srcdir)/sgml/*.bottom $(srcdir)/sgml/*.top $(distdir)/sgml
+
+.PHONY : html sgml templates scan
+
+		      
+
diff --git a/doc/api/gphoto2-api.sgml b/doc/api/gphoto2-api.sgml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8f7734363
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+++ b/doc/api/gphoto2-api.sgml
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+<!doctype book PUBLIC "-//Davenport//DTD DocBook V3.0//EN" [
+<!entity widget SYSTEM "sgml/widget.sgml">
+]>
+
+<book>
+  <bookinfo>
+    <title>GPhoto2 API Reference Manual</title>
+  </bookinfo>
+  
+  <chapter id="gphoto2-camera-configuration">
+    <title>Camera Configuration</title>
+      &widget;
+  </chapter>
+</book
+>
+
diff --git a/doc/api/gphoto2-decl.txt b/doc/api/gphoto2-decl.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0afc7f33e
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+++ b/doc/api/gphoto2-decl.txt
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+<FUNCTION>
+<NAME>gp_widget_new</NAME>
+<RETURNS>int</RETURNS>
+CameraWidgetType type, const gchar *name
+</FUNCTION>
diff --git a/doc/api/gphoto2-sections.txt b/doc/api/gphoto2-sections.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e805ba271
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+++ b/doc/api/gphoto2-sections.txt
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+<SECTION>
+<FILE>widget</FILE>
+gp_widget_new
+</SECTION>