[alicebot-archcomm] A test aiml fetch service for Jon

[Jonathan Roewen]

> First of all, we've gone an implemented a new AIML tag in one AIML
> interpreter, and also gone and implemented some services somwhere that are
> compatible with that tag.  We've also shown some sample AIML tag that will
> work with that code and with that interpreter.

Yes, that's true .. and like Kino said, I guess we're on the wrong list, so
to alicebot-developers we go =)

> I am living through a really tough experience myself right now trying to
> port some AIML files from Pandorabots to Program E and finding out that
> even the existing AIML standard has some big compatibility problems which
> have not yet been hashed out.  For example, they each process "that"
> differenlty.  Also, has anyone looked at the "Annabot" project lately?
> They have forked AIML and replaced the <that> tag with <this>.

Yes, I read about the <this/> tag on the site a long time ago, yet, at the
same time, their AIML sets did not use the <this/> tag anywhere.

What I think that is seriously missing these days is a lack of up-to-date,
and well written tools for verifying the output of an AIML interpreter. Such
as the old test files Thomas Ringate and others maintained .. I'm sure most
of them are still valid though .. does anyone know where to get them?

Jon