I do not think using text-files to do this is "the right way". BeBot is geared to use the database more. However I can see that editing the contents of the database using tells and so on can be tedious.

So a possible solution is to have users post their files online and then have the bot read them in with something like !info add <quest/textname> <pointer to file>

However a backup feature need to be in place to prevent accidentaly (or deliberately) overwriting something.

The bot can easily find both faction and profession of the person invoking the command, but one should also be able to specify profession and faction when one person invokes an !info on behalf of another player. Also one might want ot be able to have the bot send the info to a spesific player in a tell.

Now there will be a question of formatting the text files. BeBot has got a unique color module and existing text files I would think uses <font color>-tags. This is not really a problem as they will still be parsed. However using the BeBot ##color## system would be preferable as it's customisable in-game. This would entail a rewrite of your existing textfiles.

This would be quite a big module but it should be doable.

As for writing modules for BeBot you might want to have a look-see at modules/_ExampleModule.php as it contains a nice default framework.