[alicebot-archcomm] External Processor Elements

Sandro Golinelli alicebot-archcomm@list.alicebot.org
Wed, 19 Mar 2003 23:55:19 +0100


Taken from Gary Dubuque mail titled: Summary of items under discussion

>* <javascript> and <system> remain part of the standard, but it is stated
>they are optional specifications.


Taken from AIML 1.0.1 WD

>7.8 External Processor Elements
>
>AIML defines two external processor elements, which instruct the AIML 
>interpreter to pass the contents of the elements to an external processor. 
>External processor elements may return a value, but are not required to do so.

As stated above, these processors may return a value, so it means to me 
that these processors can be optionally implemented into an AIML 
Interpreter to return a value. IMO there is no need to change the specs for 
this.

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Sandro