Integration of $A$-valued functions (Functional Analysis)

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Premise 1: my source is the Rudin - Functional Analysis.

Premise 2: i'm not a mathmo so forgive for the mistakes

A couple of question on the subject... An example of Banach Algebra is the set of the bounded linear operators $\cal{B}(X)$ where $X$ is a banach space.

On the definition of integral (section 10.22) it says

If $A$ is a Banach algebra and $f$ is a continous $A$-valued function on some compact Hausdorf space $Q$ on which a complex Borel measure $\mu$ is defined then $\int f d\mu$ exists...

I'm just trying to find some example of such integral (i.e. i want to see an integral written that meets such definition). To such purpose i'm trying to construct it by myself however i got stuck...

So can you provide me an example?

Update,

i had a look to the definitions you provided me, i also had a look to the definition the book i'm studying from states. It says that the integral $y = \int_X x d\mu$ is well defined if for each $\Lambda \in X^*$ we have

$$\Lambda y = \int_X \Lambda x d\mu$$

Following this example here and the definition i just gave would be possible to compute something like $$\int_{C^1[0,1]} \left( d/dx \right) d \mu$$ ?

In this case i would suspect the "value" is something like $I$, however how to prove that for each functional $\Lambda$ we have

$$\Lambda I = \int_{C^1[0,1]} \Lambda \left( d/dx \right) d \mu$$

I'm not neither sure of what i'm talking about, but i really would like to understand this concept of "weird integral".

Thank you